Amiga World Magazine (January 1988)

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300,000 programs will have been sold in
1987, desktop publishing is clearly a hot
topic in computing. There's a lot you can
do with such programs — and a lot you
can't, AmigaWorld examines the desktop
publishing phenomenon and zeros in on
the Amiga market. What's available?
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generation of programs waiting in the
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January 1988

CONTENTS

VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1

FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS

Jt£l To Have And Have Not:

Amiga Desktop Publishing Software

By Chris Dickman and
Eric Grevstad

Amiga strengths offer very exciting pros-
pects for the desktop publishing boom, but
programs for the machine are still in their
infancy. How does the current crop of soft-
ware stack up against each other and
against the Mac and PC markets? And
what's on the horizon for 1988?

ARTICLES

BASIC By The Numbers

By Bob Ryan

If you're new to BASIC programming, or to
the Amiga, you can get in on the ground
floor of our brand new series on program-
ming the Amiga with Amiga Basic.

E3 Depth-Defying Graphics

By Sfieldon Leernon

Three-dimensional graphics at affordable
prices are now available to Amiga users
with the commercial introduction of two
startlingly realistic programs: Sculpt 3D and
VideoScape 3D.

The Best Things in Life Are PD

By David T. McClellan
and Rob Peck

There's a wealth of good free software in
the public domain, and to help you sort it
out one expert gives you his pick of the
best for-usc programs, while another shows
you how to utilize the source code of many
public domain offerings.

Repartee

Go ahead, get it off your chest .

Surgery . . , 68000-Style
By Ben and Jean Means

A highly-innovative research program at
UCLA's School of Medicine is using Amigas
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COLUMNS

Zeitgeist

Our editor finds his crystal ball (it had been
misplaced in his bowling ball bag) and
prognosticates on the 1988 market picture
for the A500. A1000 and A2000.

info.phile

Just Fooling Around

By Bill Catchings and
MarkL. Van Name

Team info.phile lays aside its more hard-
core pursuits to present its choices for best
games for the Amiga in 1987.

Notepad

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past fall.

EEl Hors d'oeuvres

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Reviews

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Games: Karate Kid Part II / Guild of
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E3 What's New?

New products from AmiExpo and more.

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All aboard for the Q&A Line.

ill Index to 1987 Amiga World
Articles

Features, articles, buyer's guides and hard-
ware and software reviews from the vintage
1987 crop.

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Which Amiga should you buy?

THE BEGINNING OF a new
year. (Even though this is really
October and you are probably
reading this in December.) Just
returned from ihe AmiExpo in
New York. . .it was a great show.
A number of people asked what
I thought about Commodore's
new marketing plans and about
the future of the A500, A1000
and A2000.

Commodore's marketing
plans: Television ads were just
beginning to appear and I
thought that they looked pretty
good (compared to the original
Amiga 1000 ads two years ago).
If Commodore concentrates on
just getting their name out
there, then I will be happy. If,
on the other hand, they decide
to market the Amiga as some-
thing in particular, then I will
begin to worry, because it is a
sure bet that they will pick the
wrong something. Some genius
will decide that the new Amiga
500 is the ultimate machine for
developing weaving patterns,
and Commodore will star' run-
ning fourteen-page ad inserts in
Weaver's World magazine. What-
ever Commodore decides to do,
I am encouraged, because some-
thing is better than nothing,
even if that something is some-
what off the mark.

What is the future for the
ASOQ, A1000, A2000? This ques-
tion came in many forms. Usu-
ally it was something like. "I
don't own an Amiga yet. Which
one should I buv?", or "I have
been thinking about trading in
my 1000 for a 2000. . ." The an-
swer to all of these questions is
"It depends on what you want

By Guy Wright

to do with it and when." Right
now, most of the hardware out
there works on the A 1000 and
there are a bunch of companies
still working on newer, bigger,
better hardware for the A1000.
The A500 has its share of hard-
ware developers working on ex-
pansion, racks, multi-processor
boards and whatnots, but there
aren't a lot of things actually for
sale today. When people buv
thousands and thousands of
A500s (and I think that they
will), then more and more pe-
ripheral manufacturers will
push A500 products out there.

The A2000 has even fewer pe-
ripherals available now than the
A500, but it will be the machine
of choice for manufacturers
who are developing heavy duty
vertical market type devices like
broadcast-quality video hard-
ware and software.

The A 1000 has a gray future.
Commodore's official line on
every computer that they ever
made is "As long as people are
buying them, we will continue
to support them." 1 don't be-
lieve that Commodore is manu-
facturing any new AlOOOs. but I
could be wrong. Currently there
is more going on with the 1000
than the 500 and 2000 put to-
gether. There are more periph-
erals out there now and there
seem to be a lot of new periph-
erals coming out in the near fu-
ture. If you need to do
Something tomorrow, then stick
with the A 1000. (You should
even be able to get a good deal
on a used 1000. if you can find
one.) If you just want a more
powerful machine and don't

have anything special in mind,
then stick with the A1000. The
A 1000 should be around for
quite a while yet and in some
ways is more versatile than ei-
ther the A500 or the A2000. All
the new software being devel-
oped should run on the 1000
(until souped-up bridge-card
utilities start being developed),
and there are a lot of A1000
supporters out there. If you are
looking into buying a first com-
puter and don't have anything
special in mind right awav, then
the A500 (with the bundled soft-
ware packages) is a great buy
and there arc enough peripher-
als and expansion units out
there now to keep you busy for
quite a while. All the software
works and the 500 has the
brightest future of the three ma-
chines. If you are looking into
areas that will require special-
ized peripherals in the future
{broadcast-quality video, multi-
megabyte hard-disk drives, MS
DOS, etc.), then the A2000 is
your best bet. The 2000 has a
reasonable future, but don't ex-
pect it to dominate the market
and don't expect bargain prices
for those specialized peripher-
als. There is also some question
about the compatibility of the
A2000 with some software, par-
ticularly action games that use
the keyboard (there are key-
board timing differences be-
tween the 2000 and the 500 and
1000).

Conclusions:' Don't scrap
your A 1000 just because you are
worried about owning a
doomed machine. If you aren't
in a giant hurry to buy fancy

peripherals and just want a very
good computer, then look into
the A500. If you want an Amiga
but the boss won't pay for any-
thing except MS DOS, then ei-
ther the A2000 (with bridge
card) or A1000 (with sidecar)
should fit the bill (transferring
graphics will be a bit of a trick,
but everything else shouldn't be
to hard). If you want broadcast
qualitv and can't wait a few
months, then get an A1000, but
if you can wait then it might be
better to get an A2000. If you
need 30, 40, 50 or more mega-
bytes of disk storage and dozens
of other high-priced peripherals
but don't want to get more in-
volved with the machine than
writing the check, then buy an
A2000 and your dealer will love
you. If you want a super-micro
workstation, 68020 with math
co-processors and whatever else,
then get an A 1000 or A2000.

In this issue we look at desk-
top publishing on the Amiga:
what it is, what is out there,
what will be out there, and what
to look for in desktop-publish-
ing products. The Amiga is a
natural for desktop publishing
and there is finally a wide range
of professional products for the
Amiga. That being one of the
last areas of software to be cov-
ered I think it is safe to say that
if there is something that you
want to do on a microcomputer,
then the Amiga is the best com-
puter for the job. And as all
long-time followers of the
Amiga know, there are a lot of
things that the Amiga can do
that no other computer can
even pretend to do.M

6 January 1988

Together

They'll Take Your Thoughts And Words
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Inside Your Mind
To Capture Ideas
As They Happen.

Never let another brainstorm slip by.
Turn it loose in Flow™, die idea pro-
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prospectus, How's outline format lets
you jot down ideas quickly to build a
preliminary fiamework Then expand
those ideas with subtext. Click to see
the details, then click again to hide diem
and keep the big picture up front. Flow's
flexibility gives you freedom to elim-
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so easily, you'll never use a scratch
pad again.

The same process also works wonders
on catalogs or to-do lists, speedily re-
ducing large amounts of random data to
multiple levels of organization. It's also
great for scheduling and tracking
projects over a period of time. And
when you are ready to turn that Flow
outline into a finished paper, the docu-
ment can be loaded into ProWrite or
other Amiga word processing software
for further work.

It's a snap to use, with most com-
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and multi-tasking power as well. So let
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And when words alone aren't enough,
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you know your printed output will live
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Easy to use, ProWrite responds to
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up to eight windows at once, and take
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For any way you work with words,
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Repartee

Comments, complaints and concerns

from Amiga World readers.

Disgruntled
"Amigaite"

Regarding "1000 Uncertainties" in
your Nov, Repartee column, it's cold
comfort to know that I am not the
only disgruntled Amigaite on this
planet.

Commodore's offer of $1, 000 for
the upgrade to the 2000 is a sham.
You get a bit more memory and PC
compatibility for another $1,500 or
more. And, in about a year, when
Commodore decides to issue another
upgrade, you will be left out in the
cold once again due to the changes
in the new system.

Your magazine is good, the com-
puter, per se, is of the same quality.
People who bought both are of nor-
mal or above average intelligence. It
shouldn't take them long to realize
that their Amiga 1000s have become
obsolete not for the sake of new tech-
nology, but for the almighty dollar.

Commodore says that the 2000 is
a business machine. What company
would spend the money for a 2000
after looking at Commodore's track
record?

Jim Audet
North Hollywood, CA

Amiga 3000?

When the Amiga 1000 made its de-
but, it represented a quantum leap
in computer technology. It was state-
of-the-art, dwarfing the Macintosh
Plus and the IBM PC/AT in graph-
ics, speed and multitasking; it bleu)
them right out of the water!

A year later, the Macintosh II
(powered by the 68020) and the
IBM PS/2 80 (powered by the 386)
were launched. Commodore's answer
was the Amiga 2000. The 2000 of-

fers true expandability, but the basic
specifications and design was not
improved at all, and to offer MS-
DOS compatibility (now rendered ob-
solete by PS/2) seems a compromise
to an inferior technology, a giant
leap backwards. Commodore
snatched defeat from the jaws of
victory!

The Amiga has clearly become a
technological laggard. The only
thing going for it is its multitasking
operating system, and even that mi-
nute lead will be lost when Apple
and IBM introduce their tnun multi-
tasking operating systems early this
year.

If Commodore wants to be compet-
itive in the business world, a more
powerful computer is needed. Com-
modore should launch the Amiga
3000, a machine with a 68020, or
preferably the newer 68030 proces-
sor, a 68881 math co-processor, a
68851 Memory Management Unit,
more internal memory, higher density
floppies, a CD-ROM drive, better
graphics (read: higher resolution, no
flicker % self-configuring expansion
slot busses and, most importantly,
Macintosh II and IBM PS/2 com-
patible co-processor cards.

The Amiga can regain the techno-
logical lead it once enjoyed. Commo-
dore is at a crossroads: To come up
with a fast, powerful, number-
crunching computer that will truly
fill the needs of business, or to for-
ever remain a home computer/video
games company.

Gerardo Arnoldo Tarango
Barksdale, LA

Positive Notes

After reading all the letters in the
Nov. '87 issue from the disgruntled
Amiga 1000 owners concerning the

changes Commodore made in their
two new machines, I felt that a few
positive notes were in order. I've had
my 1000 since April '86, so I be-
lieve I'm qualified to comment.

First of all, my machine has been
very reliable. It sits on my desk at
work and is usually on eight hours a
day. I'm usually doing anything from
marketing analysis, word processing
and telecommunications to an occa-
sional game to break up the pace.
(Who says executives don 't play
games!) I have not had a single
problem with any part of the
much ine.

Regarding future expandability, I
would think that by now there is
enough of an installed base of 1000s
tlial there will be products available
for some time. Personally, after I re-
ceive my hard drive next month, ex-
pandability will no longer be an
issue at all for me. I'll have extra
memory, two floppy drives, a hard
drive and a modem. For what I do,
it's all I'll ever need.

Gregg Haverly
Anchorage, AK

Building a Better
Ball Game

/ enjoyed reading Bob Ryan's article
on Earl Weaver Baseball ["Boot Me
Up to the Ball Game", Nov. '87, p.
38], As muck as I like Earl Weaver
Baseball, I feel the game is not as
good as it could be.

For starters, the infield fly rule is
not supported and neither is the rule
which forces relief pitchers to pitch
to at least one batter before they can
be removed. The "official scorer" is
very inconsistent with its scor-
ing — not assigning errors when it
should, gwi?ig a batter a double on
a single, etc.

The stat compiler has yet to work
correctly for me. After compiling
stats for a recent six-game series, one
team showed more RBIs than its
runs scored.' Each team's batting
stats don't match the other team's
pitching stats (hits, walks, strike-
outs).

It is niy hope that Electronic Arts
will address some of these concerns
in a future revision of Earl Weaver
Baseball. Unless they do, I'm afraid
the ultimate computer baseball game
is yet to be developed.

Nevin Longardner
Gahatma, OH

Let's Be PALs

How would you like to have a reso-
lution of 620 x 512 with your
Amiga? Well, al! European Amiga
owners do, due to the European
PAL TV standard. Good enough,
but very few American video and
graphics software developers have
given this much consideration. This
leaves us Europeans oat in the cold,
leaving the lower one-fifth of our
screens blank. This is unacceptable
for Amiga video production. I have
yet to see PAL versions for Anima-
tor, DeluxeVideo, VideoScape 3D or
Digi View, for instance.

This problem has caused a great
deal of trouble over here, and we
hope to see future developments to
support the rapidly growing Euro-
pean market.

Jon Bohmer
Norway

Send your letters to: Repartee,
AmigaWorld editorial, 80 Elm St..
Peterborough, NH 03458. let-
ters may be edited for space
and clarity.B

8 January 1988

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A steady stream ofAmiExpo irisitors thronged the WordPerfect Corp. booth
for a look at WordPerfect for the Amiga.

MAYBE FRANK SINATRA wasn't
there, but the recently concluded
AmiExpo seemed to have everyone
connected with the Amiga whistling
some spirited choruses of "New
York, New York." The first all-Amiga
exposition, held over the weekend of
October 10-12, played to a full house
and demonstrated conclusively that
the Amiga is a force to be reckoned
with in the microcomputer market-
place. With over 8,000 enthusiastic
attendees Jamming New York's Sher-
aton Centre exposition hall, it was
clear the Amiga had passed with
flying colors Old Blue Eyes' famous
test: "If I can make It there, I'll make
It anywhere."

Visitors to AmiExpo were beseiged
with a host of new hardware and soft-
ware offerings for the Amiga, includ-
ing sophisticated graphics programs,

genlocks, disk controllers, compilers
and, of course, games galore. (For
more information on many of the new
products mentioned below, see this
month's "What's New?" column.)
Pundits as well as products were well
represented, with a number of pre-
sentations, seminars and panel dis-
cussions available to fairgoers.
Keynote speeches preceded each
session of the three-day Expo, with
Amiga pioneers Jay Miner and R.J.
Michai kicking off the first two days
and Commodore VP Richard Mclntyre
initiating the finale. (See "Old and
New Guards Keynote Expo Sessions"
on p. 11 for more Information.)

Users Get Floored

After the keynote address each day,
the show opened to the public. Many
Amiga companies, both familiar and

new, demonstrated their products to
the public. While all the displays were
busy, some drew an inordinate
amount of attention,

NewTek principal Tim Jennison
made a big splash with Digl-View and
Dlgl-Palnt, the company's Ho!d-and-
Modlfy paint program. On display
across the aisle was Progressive Im-
age Technology's Super-Gen genlock
(distributed by Digital Creations). Mi-
metics Corp. also showed off a new
ImaGen genlock unit that was less
expensive, although apparently of a
higher quality, than the Commodore
Genlock 1300. Although not displayed
on the exposition floor, Burklund As-
sociates' Genlock was being shown
in a room in the hotel.

Perhaps the most startling graph-
ics/video hardware was shown by
Very Vivid of Toronto. The Mandala
system uses a Live! digitizer to cap-
ture the image of a performer. It
then uses collision detection to let
the performer's Image interact with
objects on an Amiga display. The re-
sults are striking: You can paint, play
music and even run programs just by
waving your arms in front of a video
camera. David Brae of Very Vivid
promises both a high-end perfor-
mance version and a home-user ver-
sion of the product. He also indicated
that the company plans to produce
games based upon the Mandala sys-
tem. This could give a whole new
meaning to the term "interactive ad-
venture."

Advanced graphics software
seemed to be everywhere, with
booths from Micro Magic (Forms in
Flight), Aegis (VldeoScape 3D), Byte
by Byte (Sculpt 3D) and Impulse
(Prism Plus and Silver). Desktop pub-
lishing software was also In abun-

dance, as MicroSeareh (City Desk),
Gold Disk (PageSetter and Profes-
sional Page), Infinity (Shakespeare)
and Brown-Wagh (Publisher 1000) all
exhibited programs. Speaking of City
Desk, SunRize Industries, the original
developer of the program, was in ac-
tion with its new real-time video dig-
itizer designed to compete with Live!.
Graphics junkies really got a good fix
at the AmiExpo.

Music products were also in abun-
dance at the show with booths from
the likes of Magnetic Music (Texture),
Sound Guest (DX7-11 Editors/Librar-
ians), Aegis (AudioMaster) and Mi-
metics Corp. (SoundScape). Bob
Hoover and Jeff Burger of Mlmetics
also presented one of the more in-
structive conferences by showing the
evolution of a SoundScape song from
conception to multimedia presenta-
tion.

No Amiga show would be complete
without games, and many companies
featured entertainment software at
the show. Electronic Arts (Formula-1
Racing), MicroSeareh (Head Coach),
Firebird Licensees (The Pawn), Psyg-
nosls (Terrorpods) and others pre-
sented many wonderful Amiga
games. The most talked-about game
was Arkanoid from Discovery Soft-
ware. Based upon the arcade game
of the same name, Arkanoid brings
true arcade machine graphics and
speed to a personal computer game.
It promised to be the hit of the Christ-
mas season.

Making The Hard Sell

Hardware vendors were at the show
in force with many new add-ons lor
the Amiga. Perry Kivolowitz of ASDG
showed his new SDP Hard Disk Con-
troller. Available now in the Zorro I

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configuration and coming soon in the
A2000 Zorro II configuration, the SDP
Is a disk controller to end all disk
controllers. It features both a SCSI
controller and an et sos controller, a
68881 math coprocessor, a 512K
memory cache and a 68000 processor
that gives the controller its intelli-
gence. The SDP uses its intelligence
to keep often-accessed tracks in
memory, to reorder the hard disk to
reflect the frequency of disk access
and even to make disk buffers appear
contiguous for faster data transfer. It
will also autoboot under the next ver-
sion of the operating system now un-
der development at Commodore.

One interesting aspect of the SDP
Is that although it performs DMA
transfers to the memory cache, It
uses an Interrupt scheme to move
data from the cache to the Amiga.
This avoids a problem encountered
with the Commodore A20S0 Hard Disk
Controller: Because overscanning the
video display takes longer than nor-
mal video generation, overscanning
Interferes with the DMA part of the
machine cycle. The A2090 will not
work while the Amiga Is in overscan;
the SDP will. Although more expen-
sive than other controllers, the SDP
will surely be the choice of Amiga
power users.

A unique hard-disk system was
shown by Comspec. It features the
ability to boot from the hard disk
without the next version of the Amiga
operating system and without any in-
ternal modification of the Amiga.
Comspec was keeping its boot tech-
nique a secret.

Other Interesting hardware in-
cluded the 68020/68881 coprocessor
boards from Computer Systems As-
sociates and the A 1000/ AS 00 Internal
memory-expansion boards from Spirit
Technology. The latter company
raised some eyebrows with its inter-
nal memory board for the A500. Some
Commodore engineers expressed
reservations about the ability of the
A500 to power any internal boards
other than the A5Q1 and work-alikes.
Spirit claims the boards do not harm
the AS00.

The compiler wars heated up again
as both Lattice and Manx showed
new products. Lattice actually deliv-
ered version 4.0 of Its C compiler at

the show while Manx announced an
upgrade to Aztec C. Manx also
showed a source-level debugger for
Aztec C that promises to cut devel-
opment time considerably. The Spen-

cer Organization showed an APL
Interpreter for the Amiga that
should appeal to anyone who does
serious number crunching with the
Amiga.

The next AmiExpo will be held In
Los Angeles, January 16-18, 1988,
at the Westln Bonaventure. Call
800/32-AMIGA (or 212/867-4663 In
New York) for more Information.

Old And New Guards Keynote Expo Sessions

EACH SESSION OF AmiExpo opened with a different keynote
speaker, beginning with Jav Miner, the person responsible for the
concept and design that became the Amiga. Jay spoke about his
background and about the founding of the original Amiga Cor-
poration. He told how the original investors in the Amiga thought
they were paying for the development of a video game machine
while he and his team of hardware and software engineers were
busy developing a high-end, graphics-oriented, general-purpose
personal computer. Jay also related his motivation in designing
and building the Amiga; He wanted to build a machine that could
run sophisticated and realistic flight simulation software.

During his talk, Jay did not miss the opportunity to direct some
pointed barbs at Commodore. While acknowledging the Amiga's
debt to Commodore — Amiga Corp. would likely have filed for
bankruptcy if Commodore had not bought the company — -Jay
expressed his anger at the way Commodore dismantled Commo-
dore-Amiga and mishandled the marketing of the Amiga.

Looking to the future,Jay related that before Commodore-Amiga
was closed down, it had completed the design of the next-generation
Amiga custom chips featuring a 1,024-pixel horizontal resolution.
He said he had no idea when Commodore might release a machine
based upon the advanced chips.

Sunday's keynote address was delivered by R. J. Michal, the
software engineer who designed and developed the Amiga's In-
tuition operating system. Like Jay Miner, R.J. spoke about what it
was like during the early days of Amiga Corp. in 1983 and 1984.
He spoke of the comraderie among the designers of the Amiga.
His tales of the antics of the design team and his ad libs and one-
liners also gave the audience an idea of how much fun it is to
work closely with a group towards a common goal.

The final keynote speaker was Commodore Business Machines
VP Richard Mclntyre, the person curcntly responsible for the sales
and marketing of the Amiga in the United Slates. He discussed
the future of Commodore and of the Amiga. He also defended
Commodore against the charge that it was abandoning A 1000
owners, citing the generous trade-in policy for A1000 owners.

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IX THE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER Notepad (p. 12), I reported that one
way to solve noise problems on the Amiga 1000 expansion bus was to take
advantage of the PAL upgrade offered by C Ltd. I stated that the upgrade
consisted of swapping Texas Instruments (TI) PAL chips for Monolithic
Memories (MM1) PAL chips. In fact, the upgrade is just the opposite: TI
PALs are replaced by MMI PALs.

Regarding another noise-reduction technique reported in the article, Com-
spec Communications reports that it has managed to run up to a half-dozen
devices off the expansion bus by grounding the offending PAL chips together.

Amiga pioneer Jay Miner was the
keynote speaker at the opening
session of the three-day AmiExpo.

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President

COMMODORE INTERNATIONAL an-
nounced that It has appointed Max E.
Toy president and chief operating of-
ficer of Commodore Business Ma-
chines, the U.S. subsidiary of
Commodore International. Mr. Toy
comes to Commodore from ITT and
has also worked for ISM and Compaq
Computers In sales and marketing.
Mr. Toy will report directly to Irving
Gould, chairman and chief executive
officer of Commodore International.
With the appointment of Mr.Toy, Mr.
Gould seems to be taking a step back
from the day-to-day management of
CBM. He had assumed executive con-
trol of CBM after the ouster of
Thomas Rattlgan last spring. ■

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Hors d'oeuvres

Hints, tips and techniques from your
fellow Amiga users.

Basic Syntax Debugging

After a bil of programming in Amiga Basic
I came up with this handy idea for catching
syntax errors. To help reduce (if not elimi-
nate) syntax errors. I do all my program-
ming in lowercase letters. This includes all
variables I use in the program. When I get
to the end of the line and press the Return
key, all of the Amiga Basic reserved words
are automatically capitalized. If I don't see a
word go to all capitals, then it is either a
variable or a syntax error that I can fix on
the spot. This really speeds up debugging
of syntax errors for me.

Jim Stewart
Venctia. PA

CTRL-L and CTRL-J

If you use the CLI a lot (like I do), then you
must have noticed thai once the screen is
full, things start scrolling from the bottom
to the top. I found it better when I can start
with a clear screen, once the screen is full.
To clear the screen, just use CTRL-L and
then hit Return. This will clear the screen
and allow you to start fresh.

If you wish to run a string of commands
automatically, you can use CTRL-J. Just tvpe
each of the commands followed by a CTRL-
J, and when you get to the end press the
Return key. AmigaDOS will execute each
command in order as if you had typed
them one at a time.

S. Hardjopranoto
Gwynneville. Australia

Bargain Printer Stands

Rather than go out and spring for a fancy
(and expensive) printer stand, I solved the
messy printer paper problem simply and in-
expensively. I went to a stationery store and

bought a letter basket, the kind they use in
offices for "in" and "out" baskets. Turn it
over and it makes a dandy printer stand
with the paper underneath and the printer
on top. Mine cost a total of $2.-19. If you
have a larger printer you might have to get
a legal-sized letter basket at a slightly higher
price.

Thomas Meyer
Ames, IA

Editor's Note: All you Amiga SOU owners can use
this tip for monitor stands. Not only will it elevate
the monitor, but it will leave space for all the cables
underneath.

1.2CLIDiskcopy

As a hard core CLIer 1 was pleased to get
the 1.2 upgrade but puzzled when I
couldn't execute a Diskcopy from the CLI.
After rummaging around a bit I found
Diskcopy and Format in the System direc-
tory instead of the C directory (as it was in
1.1). If you want to use Diskcopy from the
CLI, just copy it to the C directory. Using a
BACKUP of the Workbench 1.2 disk, just
type:

COPY DF0:SYSTEM/DISKCOPY TO DF0:C
COPY DF0:SYSTEM/FORMAT TO DF0:C

You may now execute these commands
from the CLI.

If you routinely use RAM:C as your com-
mand directory, and attempt to format or
copy a disk with the Workbench disk re-
moved, requesters may appeal' asking you
to reinsert the Workbench disk. One such
instance is discussed in the Enhancer Soft-
ware Manual accompanying the update (p.
28). A requester will appear if Diskcopy
cannot access the file I. IBS/icon. library,
which is normally on the Workbench disk.

If you have enough RAM to spare (approx,
52K), you can copy the LIBS directory to
RAM:LIBS and avoid swapping disks. Once
again, on a backup copy of your Workbench
disk, modify the file s/startup-sequence so
that you can use the C and LIBS directories
from RAM by adding:

MAKEDIR RAM:C

COPY DF0:C TO RAM:C QUIET

ASSIGN C: RAM:C

MAKEDIR RAMLIBS

COPY DFOLIBS TO RAMLIBS QUIET

ASSIGN LIBS: RAMLIBS

If you still want to load Workbench, then
insert these lines before the LoadWB li ru-
in the Startup-sequence. The use of QUIET
prevents the names of the files being cop-
ied echoing on the screen. Note: the
AmigaDOS Manual contains descriptions of
the file editors available through the CLI.

Diane Engles
Colorado Springs. CO

Clearing Arrays

Often, an array in Amiga Basic must be re-
set to all zeroes. The obvious method is to
use the sequence:

FOR a = 1 TO max : array(a) =
: Next max

This is fine if "max" is small, but when
"max" gets large, so does the time spent re-
setting each element one by one. A faster
way is to use this:

ERASE array : DIM array(size)

This works because when Amiga Basic cre-
ates an array, all elements are set to zero.
But you cannot create an array that already

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Omaha, NE

Startup Multitasking

I use two techniques to customize my start-
up-sequence. These ideas allow you to auto-
matically use the Amiga's multitasking and
to run programs in the mode von desire.
To automatically use multitasking, 1 in-
clude [he NevvCLI command in the startup-
sequence. An example of this is starting my

public domain screen-blanking program,
ScrnSave, during the startup. If you just in-
clude the name of the program in the start-
up-sequence, then the program will run, but
the execution of the rest of your startup-se-
quence will be suspended. To fix this, run
the desired program in its own window:

NewCLI CON:639/199n/l FROM

s/screen-save

This will open a new one-pixel by one-pixel
C'.LI window in the lower right coiner of
your screen and then run the command file
"screen-save" located in the s directory. The

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as your startup-sequence file but is much
shorter. Mine says the following:

ScrnSave
EndCLl > nil

This file runs the screen-saver program
(ScrnSave) and then closes the CLI window
if ScrnSave is terminated. The EndCLl > nil
statement is probably not necessary, but I
include it anyway. The screen-save file is lo-
cated in the s directory for convenience.
I also use the startup-sequence to run
programs immediatelv during the system
startup. My programs such as Images and
Scribble! each reside on a disk of their own.
Whenever I put one of these disks into my
Amiga 1 obviously intend to run the main
program. To do this automatically, simply
modify the startup-sequence. For example,
my Images startup-sequence reads:

Images
LoadWB
EndCLl > nil

This runs Images as soon as the machine
boots. When I'm done using images, the
startup-sequence automatically continues
and loads Workbench. This will still allow
you to run the program from Workbench.
When running Scribble! in this manner I
use the following:

Scribble! = 100 DF1:

This allocates 100K for the Scribble! files
being edited and also tells Scribble! to find
these files on the disk in drive DF1:,

Jim Stewart
Venetia, PA

Keyboard "Clicking"

Under 1.2 there is a keyboard shortcut for
clicking on a requester box, allowing you to
use the keyboard rather than the mouse.

Hold down the left Amiga key and press
the V key to "click" on the left gadget (usu-
ally the Retry), or hold down the left Amiga
key and press the B key to "click" on the
right gadget (usually the Cancel).

Joerg Anstik

Cologne, West Germany

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BASIC By The Numbers

A tutorial on programming the Amiga with Amiga Basic. Part 1: First Steps

By Bob Ryan

i

Read Me First!

WELCOME TO THEfirst part o/AmigaWorld's series on programming
the Amiga urith Amiga Basic. The series has two goah: to leach programming
to beginners and to introduce Amiga Bask to those of you who have pro-
grammed in BASIC on other microcomputers. Each part of the series is divided
into easy-to-digest chunks: Beginners should read every bit; more experienced
programmers lookingfor Amiga-specific information can skip around at will.
As space permits, I will include information about other flavors of BASIC
available for the Amiga, such as True BASIC and the Absoft AJC BASIC
Compiler.

Basic History

YOU PROGRAM a computer using a programming language. Each computer language has strengths and weak-
nesses— FORTRAN, for instance, is great for writing math-heavy programs but horrible for manipulating text infor-
mation. BASIC is renowned as a language that is easy to learn and use. In addition, newer versions of the
language, such as Amiga Basic, have many powerful features normally associated with more complex languages.
Amiga Basic is not a wimp language— you can write very powerful programs with it.

BASIC Is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. First developed by John Kemeny and
Tom Kurtz at Dartmouth In the early 1960s, It uses an English-like syntax (meaning there Is some common-sense
correlation between the names of BASIC statements and the functions they perform). PRINT, for Instance, will
cause something to be printed on the screen (Just as you would expect) and can handle many different types of
problems.

BASIC became very popular on early microcomputers because it could be squeezed Into their tiny memories (in
1976 4K of RAM was considered a lot of memory). Amiga Basic, written by the Microsoft Corporation, Is a direct
descendant of those early microcomputer BASICS.

4

Window on Amiga Basic

YOU WILL FIND Amiga Basic on the Extras disk that
came with your Amiga. (On the disk, it's actually called
AmigaBASIC — no space.) Amiga Basic is itself a program;
its function is to accept instructions from you in the form
of Amiga Basic statements and to then translate these
statements into the low-level instructions the Amiga can
understand. You start Amiga Basic by double-clicking on
its icon. If you have two disk drives, you can run Amiga
Basic from your external drive. If you have onty one disk *

2

A Definition

CONTRARY TO WHAT most

people think, programming a
computer does not require a
soaring intellect or a profound
knowledge of mathematics.
More than anything else, pro-
gramming requires the ability
and patience to tell the com-
puter in excruciating detail
how it will go about solving
your problem. You see, com-
puters are incredibly dumb;
they can only perform the most
rudimentary functions, such as
"move the information at ad-
dress $50000 to register D6" or
"compare the information at
address SI 2010 with the infor-
mation at address $12012." If it
were not for the fact that com-
puters are also incredibly fast —
their saving grace — they would
be little more than intellectual
curiosities.

To program a computer, you
enter into it a list of instruc-
tions that it then executes. You
cannot assume the computer
knows what you want to do; it
simply and exactly does what
you tell it to do. To be a good
programmer, you have to tell
the computer the right things
to do in the right order,

AmtgaWorid 19

drive, you can remove the Workbench disk and insert Ex-
tras. If you want to avoid one-drive disk swapping, you
can delete unimportant files from your Workbench disk
and copy Amiga Basic to your Workbench disk. (See
"Clear the Bench," AmigaWorlcl, Nov. '87, p. 61, for
details.)

Running Amiga Basic brings up two windows on your
Workbench screen. The LIST window is where you enter
and modify your BASIC programs. When you choose
Start from the Run menu (or type in Run in the BASIC
window), Amiga Basic will execute the instructions dis-
played in the LIST window.

The other window is the BASIC window. Unless you
specify otherwise in your program, the output from the
programs you enter into the LIST window will be dis-
played here. Try this example: Select the LIST window (by
clicking the left mouse button while the pointer is in the
window), type in "PRINT 10+ 10" and hit the return key.
(Just enter what is between the quotation marks; the
marks themselves and everything outside them are not
part of this BASIC statement.) Now choose Start from the
Run menu and observe what happens.

If you enter everything correctly, your LIST window
should disappear and the number 20 should appear in
the upper left of the BASIC window. Then, the program
completed, the LIST window should reappear. If this does
not happen, correct the statement in the LIST window
and run the program again.

In addition to being the standard output window, the
BASIC window has a second function. You can use it in-
stead of the pull-down menus to do such things as load,
run and stop programs. For instance, in the above exam-
ple, instead of selecting Start from the Run menu to run
the program, you could select the BASIC window and
type "run" and hit return. Commands entered into the
output window are called immediate commands. By com-
parison, True BASIC, another version of BASIC for the
Amiga (available for $99.95 from True BASIC Inc., 39
South Main St., Hanover, NH 03755, Tel: SOOfrRBASIC)
has three windows: a list window, an output window and a
command window, Amiga Basic combines these last two
into one window. From now on, when you run a program,
you can do so with either the pull-down menus or an im-
mediate command.

■

Hello World!

I'VE READ A LOT of books on pro-
gramming and taken a lot of com-
puter courses, and it seems that
the first program beginners are in-
structed to write is one that either
displays their name or the message
"Hello World" on the screen. I've
opted for the latter.

Select the LIST window and en-
ter the following:

REM My First Program
LOCATE 5,10
PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
FOR X TO 5000: 'a pause loop
NEXT X
END

Run the program and watch as it
prints your message in the output
window.

Let's look closely at what's hap-
pening here. The first line of the
program begins with the key word
REM, indicating that this line is a
remark and is not meant to be exe-
cuted. Remarks (also called com-
ments) are used by programmers to
document a program. They are only
visible when you list the program,
and they are good reminders of
what functions are taking place in
different parts of your program.
Many times, you will want to modify
a program that you wrote months
ago. Without remarks to tell you
what sections of your program do
what, you might not be able to fig-
ure out the logic of your own
program!

The second line of the program
is the first tine that is actually exe-
cuted. The LOCATE statement posi-
tions the cursor on a particular line
and column of the output window.
In this case, the cursor is posi-
tioned at line five and column ten
of the BASIC window. LOCATE is an
example of an output statement; It
changes the output window of the
program. Although It does not write
anything in the output window, it
does change where information will
be written. You use this statement
to format your output window.

The PRINT statement in line
three is another output statement
that writes whatever is found be-
tween the quotes to the current
output window at the current cursor
position. In addition to displaying
what is between quotes, PRINT
statements are also used to display
numbers, numeric variables and

string variables. (More on variables
later.) In addition, depending upon
whether the item to be displayed is
followed by a semicolon, a comma
or a blank space, the PRINT state-
ment will position the cursor one
position to the left, one tab to the
left (as set by the Width statement),
or at the beginning of the next line,
respectively. Check your Amiga Ba-
sic manual and experiment with all
the different variations of the PRINT
statement.

The next line is the beginning of
a FOR/NEXT loop. Loops are funda-
mental to programming; they let
you execute the same statements
over and over again. Although I will
cover loops more extensively next
month, you should know that this
line initiates a loop that will execute
what is between the FOR statement
and the corresponding NEXT state-
ment 5000 times. After the FOR
statement comes a colon. A colon
indicates the end of a statement; It
allows you to put more than one
statement on a line. Following the
colon is an apostrophe (*). This has
the same function as REM; it sets
off a comment.

The NEXT statement indicates
the end of the loop. You will notice
that this loop has no executable
statements between the FOR and
the NEXT. The only purpose ot this
particular loop is to pause the pro-
gram before ending it. You can
lengthen the pause by replacing the
5000 in the FOR statement with a
larger number. The final line con-
tains the END statement that marks
the end of the program.

This program is not very impres-
sive, but it does illustrate one of
the more fundamental things about
programming: programs execute
one statement at a time, one after
the other. Although you can use
loops and other control statements
to determine which statement is ex-
ecuted next, you cannot execute
two or more statements at once. ^

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What Goes in Must Come Out

ENTER THIS program into
the LIST window. . .

REM Add Two Numbers

PRINT 2 + 2

END

. . .and run it. It adds two plus
two. The problem with the
program is that it adds only
two plus two. To add two
other numbers, you have to
modify the program in the
LIST window. There is a better
way, and it involves variables
and the INPUT statement.
In the program, the two
twos are called constants. The
Amiga stores the numbers in
specific memory locations and
then performs the indicated
function — addition, in this
case. A variable is like a con-
stant, in that the computer sets
aside memory to store a value,
but that value is not set in
concrete — it can change ac-
cording to your needs. Try
this program:

REM Add Two Numbers

num1 = 2

num2-2

PRINT numl +num2

END

This program gives the same
results as the one above, but
we have used variables, numl
and num2, instead of con-
stants. Variables have two com-
ponents, a name (or label) and
a value. This program assigns
values to two variables and
then adds the values repre-
sented by the labels. To
change the program, you
would change the assignment
statements. Note well that the
equals sign in the assignment
statements should be read as
"takes the value of," not as an
algebraic equivalence. For ex-
ample, you would read line
two of the program as "the
variable named numl takes a

value of 2."

Variables are critical in pro-
gramming. They allow you to
create flexible programs that
can handle different data.
That is not apparent in the
above example, where you
have to change two assignment
statements in order to change
the numbers that get added;
but if you could change the
value of variables while the
program is running, you
would have a flexible addition
program. Assigning values to
variables while a program is
running is a function of the
INPUT statement.

Type in the following
program:

REM Add Two Numbers
INPUT numl
INPUT num2
PRINT numl + num2
END

The function of the INPUT
statement is simple: It types a
question mark on the screen
and then waits for you to en-
ter a number from the key-
board. Once you have done
that and hit return, it assigns
the number you entered to the
variable following the INPUT
keyword.

When you run this program,
a question mark appears on
your output window. Click on
the output window using the
left mouse button and enter a
number from the keyboard,
hitting return when you are
done. Do the same at the sec-
ond question mark. The pro-
gram will then print the sum
of the two numbers you en-
tered. You now have a pro-
gram that will add any two
numbers you enter.

(By the way, if you are inter-
ested in a method that allows
you to activate a window for
input without clicking the left

mouse button, sec this month's
"Help Key" column.)

7

The String Section

NUMBERS ARE NICE, but the power of digital computers comes from the
fact that they can manlpultate text Information— names, addresses and the
like— just as easily as numbers. Amiga Basic has a special type of variable
for storing text information: the string variable. Unlike the numeric variable
we used In the example above, string variables require a special exten-
sion—a dollar sign— to tell the Amiga that they are being used to store
alphanumeric characters and not numbers. Examples of string variables are
nameS, answers, states, CIS and rec.hS.

String variables do not have a specific length; they expand and contract
based upon the characters you put into them, An assignment such as
name$= "Bob Ryan" results in a string that Is eight characters long. If,
later in the program, you assign a different string to the same variable
(name$= "Roger Clemens" lor Instance), the variable will expand automati-
cally to hold the extra characters.

Like numeric variables, you can use string variables In PRINT and INPUT
statements. You can also add strings together in a process called concaten-
ation. Enter and run the following program:

REM Strings and Things

INPUT "Enter your first name: "; firsts

INPUT "Enter your last name: "; lasts

fullnameS = firsts + " "■ lasts

PRINT fullnameS

END

This program Introduces a couple of new twists. Notice that the literal
strings enclosed in quotes in the two INPUT statements print before the
program will accept Input from the keyboard. This Is how you can display
more detailed and informative prompts than a mere question mark. The
semicolon after the literal has the same effect in an INPUT statement that It
does in a PRINT statement: It moves the cursor to the next column on the
output window. This Is where you see the data you enter displayed.

After getting the data into variables, the program concatenates the
strings In line four. Three strings are being combined here: the string vari-
ables firsts and lasts and a literal string. The literal string may look empty,
but It is not— it contains the space character (there is a single space be-
tween the quotation marks). I used the space to keep the first and last
names from running together when they are combined. Line five simply
prints the concatenated string.

8

Wrap Up

NEXT ISSUE /'// go into detail about loops, contra! structures and con-
ditional branching. In the meantime, use your Amiga Basic manual to
learn more about PRINT, INPUT and variables. If you have any ques-
tions about what I've covered here, or if you have a particular topic you
woidd like covered in a future installment of the series, write me at
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individualistic Amiga.

Alas, although a great admirer of both Desktop publishing programs for the
Hemingway and my own Amiga 1000, I

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bought an IBM-AT compatible com-
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for MS-DOS or had tired of my Amiga

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tablish a document-design business

based on desktop publishing technology, market momentum starts to build.
1 had to face the fact that software sophis-
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PC-PageMaker, was not available for the Amiga. ►-

By Chris Dickman

II.II SIRAIlIt K\ fllll IITI. VVKISBECKKR

AmigaWorld 27

At that time, Page-Setter 1.0 was the sole Amiga desktop
publishing program available, and while a valiant first effort,
it came up short of its big-league counterparts in an alarming
number of categories. The fullness of time has seen the
release of a new version of PageSetter and its companion
programs, LaserScript and Jet, as well as a number of coin-
petitors. Recently announced products indicate some direc-
tions Amiga desktop publishing software will be following,
building on the Amiga's inherent strengths to provide color
separation and sophisticated image processing capabilities
as well as many of the features found in high-end MS-DOS
and Macintosh programs, In the sidebar ("On the Horizon")
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COMPARING

THE CURRENT CROP:

5 CRITICAL TESTS

If you need the power promised by this new generation, you
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desktop publishing, however, and just want to get your feet
wet or have documents that just can't wait, despite the lim-

itations of the current crop of software, there are several

offerings from which to choose. With that in mind, let's
compare the salient features of Publisher 1000 (Brown-Wagh
Publishing), Page-Setter (Gold Disk Inc.) and City Desk
(MicroSearch Inc.) in light of their performance in five crit-
ical areas.

1 . File Import Abilities

Because the central function of desktop publishing software
is the integration of text and graphics files, poor performance
on this score can cripple a program. Publisher 1000 performs
credibly, supporting Notepad (ASCII), Tcxtcraft and Scribble!
files. As with all of the programs under review, it can also
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Scribble! (lies, with WordPerfect support promised in the
future. In addition, font and style changes inserted in the
file, such as underlining and boldfacing, are maintained
when importing Notepad files. PageSetter can import Note-
pad, Scribble! and Textcraft files.

2. Flowing Text

The relative ease with which a desktop publishing program
places, or "flows," the imported text on the page has a big

ON THE HORIZON

NOT CAPTIVATED BY the current crop of Amiga desktop
publishing software? The good news is that a new gen-
eration is set to arrive that makes better use of the
strengths of the Amiga's unique hardware and software
mix. Two prospective members of this group were to have
been released at the end of 1987, and although I did not
have copies in hand before this article went to press, I
did have some advance information, and, in one case, a
late beta version.

Shakespeare: The Page Integrator (Infinity Software, 1144
65th St., Suite C, Emeryville, CA 94608; tel: 415/420-1551;
expected list price: $225; requires 512K) promises users
the ability to create long documents containing full-color
IFF graphics. Supplied on two disks containing an exten-
sive library of page templates and clip art, the program
provides solid support for PostScript printers. This in-
cludes the ability to directly download PostScript code,
thereby opening up a new world of typographical special
effects to Amiga oxvners.

Professional Page from the makers of PageSetter (Gold
Disk — see Product Information box; expected list price;
$395) promises to be the ne plus uttra in Amiga desktop
publishing. In fact, it goes beyond this, providing features
not found in desktop programs written for other micro-
computers. Consequently, its hardware requirements are
quite steep: It will take 1 MB of RAM (2 MB is better),

two disk drives and a PostScript printer just to get you
in the game. As the program runs in interlace mode, a
high-persistence monitor would also be a good idea.

Judging from an advanced beta version, it appears to
me that Professional Page is based on PageSetter but goes
far beyond it in capability. For example, instead of a
separate text editor, there is now a WYSIWYG version
that lets you edit text right in its box. Text control is now
more complete with the addition of hyphenation, variable
tracking, baseline control and kerning. Also, you now
have five different page magnifications, can create over-
sized pages, employ page templates and use PostScript
printers.

It's in the area of graphics, however, that Professional
Page has really made a giant leap forward. It is the first
Amiga program in this category to support object-oriented
graphics, such as those produced by CAD software. It
provides a full complement of tools to create or edit this
type of graphics, including the ability to draw the Bczier
curves employed by the popular Macintosh Illustrator
program. It also extends Bitmap graphic support to the
point where Professional Page can import IFF or HAM
graphics and display them on the screen in sixteen shades
of gray. It enhances color support even further through
an individual color-separation module that can divide any
Professional Page or IFF file into cyan, magenta, yellow
and black for offset printing purposes.D

—CD

28 January 19SS

impact on productivity. Most
such programs, including the
three under review, deal with
text in terms of blocks, called
linked boxes by PageSetter,
boxes by Cily Desk and guides
by Publisher 1000.

To place a text file on a Page-
Setter page, vou must create a
blank box on the screen bv clicking and dragging the mouse.
Alter loading the file, vou click in the box lo fill il with text;
to till multiple columns or pages with a long text tile, you
must reflow every box manually by clicking in each one.
These linked boxes form part of a chain; resizing one box
thus fellows the text automatically in the other links of the
chain, a feature unique to PagcScttcr. Boxes can be linked
Or unlinked from the chain as desired, providing quite a bit
of flexibility. PageSetteris also the only program of the three
(hat displays the actual text when you move a block; the
others displav only the outline.

Publisher 1000 works basically the same way, with text
placed in columns or guides drawn on the screen. The
program also reflows text manually, but it uses a somewhat
less intuitive process than that of PageSetter; you have to
pull down the Edit menu to Continue, then click the first
texi box, then the one in which the text is to be reflowed. A
text file can he split into any number of boxes spanning
columns and pages, but the boxes are not linked dynamically.
Vou can move or size them easily, but ihcrc is no procedure
to unlink them.

City Desk takes a slightly different approach. You do not
have to place loaded text in a previously created box; instead,
you can dump il anywhere on the page, thereby forming its
own box. You may reflow long text files either manually or
automatically throughout a document and they will remain
linked, albeit in a confusing manner. When you make a text
box smaller, for example, rather than the extra text flowing
into one of the other linked boxes, the pointer changes to
indicate il is loaded with the surplus texi, which you must
place somewhere before you can continue. This is messy,
despite the fact that you are able to link or unlink boxes
from the chain.

3. Modifying Text

One of the claims to fame of desktop publishing software is
its ability to modify text by changing its size, typeface, align-
ment and attributes. The ease with which it does this is a
good Yardstick of the software's sophistication. Ideally, you
should be able to make such changes both lo Mocks and
individual words. City Desk encourages you to change such
lext attributes as alignment, typeface and size a block at a
time. To enlarge page elements such as headers thus forces
you to break a document into many separate chunks — a
dismal task at best. An alternate route is to load a block into
the program's rather weird editor, which displays the text as
one long, scrollable line. Into this you can insert up to fifty
different commands to control everything from font type,
size and attribute to widow and orphan line checking. The
problem here, however, is that although you can make mul-
tiple changes within a text block, you will need lo work with

The ease udth which

a desktop publishing program Ids you modify
text is a good yardstick

of the program s sophistication.

embedded codes, a task per-
haps more appropriate to
high-end, dedicated typeset-
ting machines than your per-
sonal computer.

PageSetter follows a similar
approach, whereby typeface,
font size and so forth are con-
trolled in block moves. With
this program, fortunately, it is relatively simple to cut out
part of a lext block for individual treatment. You may also
load blocks into a competent, full-screen editor and apply a
limited range of embedded formatting codes to individual
words; these include the unusual outline, shadow and reverse
commands.

Publisher 1000 also forces you to perform most text op-
erations a block at a time. This is all the more frustrating in
that it is the only one of the three programs thai wisely
forsakes a separate text editor, allowing you to edit the texi —
and even to change attributes such as boldface or italics —
right on the screen. Despite this feature, you are still stuck
with the inability to change typeface or size within a block.
The block move operation itself is not an easy process, .is
the screen responds slowly and (he cursor is almost invisible.
Close but no cigar.

4. Control of Views

Views are the differed I levels of magnification at which the
page is displayed. Being able to move smoothly among them
is essential, because the process of page composition is a
continuous reversal between zooming in to work on a detail
and pulling back to see the entire page. Each of the three
programs uses a slightly different approach.

City Desk relies on a pop-up gadget that can be set at a
magnification level between one and six. with the latter
selling required to read 10-point type. The zoom is not
pointer-sensitive, however, so that once you enlarge the page,
you must use the scroll bars to move to the part of the page
you were working on. (None of the programs, for that matter,
permit zooming a specific area of the page.) A function key
to toggle between one and six would have been preferable
in this case.

PageSetter lets you rotate among three views of a page
simply by clicking on a magnify icon. In place of scroll bars,
it employs a strange little gadget off to the edge of the screen
to allow you to move around the page. This is an unusual
but workable arrangement.

The best of the lot is the elegant approach employed
bv Publisher 1000, Il provides only two views: the entire
page and a highly magnified fragment in which you navigate
with the aid of scroll bars. Working at the highly magnified
view for long lengths of time is possible, because, unique to
Publisher 1000, the screen scrolls quickly and smoothly and
cities not redraw as you move about the page. It even scrolls
with you when you size or move graphics or lext blocks.
Although the process eats up a lot of memory, it is an
enormous aid to production. Even when a full-page view is
required, the magnified view pops up on top of the expanded
view before vanishing with a click of the mouse — quite a neat
feature. *•

AmigaVforld 29

DESKTOP PUBLISHING VS. SLICED BREAD:
RAGING 'BULL' OR REAL CONTENDER?

By Eric Grevstad

ITS DOUBTFUL desktop publishing could have flattened
Dempsey or Tunnev, Lewis or Marciano, Ali or Fra/ier. Flow-
ever, il can definitely KO the typing pool, decision the Xerox
machine and go the distance with the copying center next
door. But, the buffs and the bookies ask, can il really be a
contender in the print game?

Strictly speaking, using a personal computer to design
pages combining text, headlines and graphics is a vertical
application: il affects fewer people (whose jobs involve page
layout} than the advent of word processing affected secre-
taries or the spreadsheet affected financial planners. Be that
as it may, there are some intriguing numbers to consider.
The New York Times recently quoted Jonathan Sevbokl, of The
Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing, as estimating that more
than 300,000 programs will have been sold in 1987 (compared
with lid, 000 in 1986). Another such increase in 1988 would
guarantee desktop publishing a Formidable niche in the
personal computer marketplace.

Desktop publishing may offer the same promise that Jo-
hannes Gutenberg's movable type did in the 1450s. Guten-
berg was not the inventor of movable type (the Koreans had
nearly identical presses a century earlier), but he was the
First to make the printed word widely available in the ver-
nacular (the Koreans printed only Chinese classics for the
royal court). Like Gutenberg, desktop publishing could make
printed communication available to more people at lower
cost.

Gutenberg Invents ASCII

Actually, the kind of printing perfected by German goldsmith
Gutenberg resembles most of today's word processors. Gu-
tenberg's impact printer pushed paper against a frame hold-
ing an inked rack of type, raised letters and symbols arranged
line by line to spell the desired text.

It was more efficient than its predecessor — a wooden block
painstakingly caned with all the letters on a page— because
it broke down the document into rearrangeable, reusable
characters. So does ASCII (American Standard Code for
Information Interchange), the computer shorthand that lets
one byte (the decimal value 65) stand for a capital .4, another
byte for B and so on. It's much simpler for software to slap
the letter A on screen than to draw it as a pattern of pixels
in a bit-mapped graphics image.

The leading character-based desktop publishing device is
something Gutenberg would recognize easily: a daisy-wheel
printer. Daisy wheels' scant variety of fonts or typefaces can

be supplemented by dot-matrix printers, but their text looks
like, well, a matrix of dots — low-quality output, rarely suited
for newsletters or reports.

Meanwhile, however, the art of printing has in some ways
moved back toward the carved block of a whole page. From
racks of "hot type" print shops have gone to techniques like
offset printing and lithography — the transfer of an image
such as a page to a metal plate or drum, different areas of
which attract and repel the ink that copies the image to
paper. Desktop publishing is sometimes called page publish-
ing or document processing because it follows this path,
seeing the big picture instead of working one character at a
time.

Desktop Horsepower

Most word processors can edit ASCII text files sprinkled with
imbedded codes like {cm} or {ep}, which a typesetting ma-
chine can translate into instructions to change fonts or indent
paragraphs. This is slit] a widely used practice, if unrelated
to today's WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) trend:
it's how AmigaWorld sends text via modem to the typesetter.
Yet, what most people call desktop publishing did not begin
until 1981, with the advent of the laser printer and the Apple
Macintosh.

Laser printers, which work like photocopying machines (a
photoconduciive drum attracts toner to printed areas of an
image), offer superior speed and resolution — usually 300
dots per inch (dpi) compared to matrix printers' 75 or 150.
This is good enough for most newsletters, business presen-
tations or brochures, although most programs also support
dot-matrix printers for drafts or simple jobs.

The fanciest publications or users determined to avoid
"jaggies"— slightly jagged edges of big letters— can buy one
of the expensive new 600-dpi lasers, take 300-dpi output and
photographically shrink it 50 percent to get the same effect,
or they can send their files to a real phototypesetting ma-
chine, such as an Allied Linolronic UK), and receive over
1,000dpi quality.

As for the Macintosh, it got people accustomed to bit-
mapped, graphics-based computing and it remains the belle
of the desktop publishing ball, although Amiga and MS-DOS
systems are catching up. Just as significant has been Apple's
LaserWriter, which set the standards for powerful laser print-
ers with its own 68000 processor and page description lan-
guage. Adobe Systems' PostScript, built in. A page-
description language is a sort of specialized super-ASCII, a

30 January 1988

compromise between limited character codes and the brute-
force approach of drawingan 8- by 10-inch page as 7.2 million
dots. PostScript combines sophisticated graphics control with
flexible, memory-efficient font management.

Even with PostScript, both computers and printers need
ample memory and power to handle millions of dots instead
of a few thousand text characters, taking over jobs held by
the S30.000 Unix workstations used in professional page
lavoul systems from such firms as Xyvision and Interleaf.
The li8020 CPU should be desktop publishing's greatest hit;
most of today's MS-DOS page programs already require an
80286 or 80386 system instead of a plain PC.

Words and Pictures

Desktop publishing combines on a computer screen the jobs
of page layout and paste-up and gives this work the conve-
nience of word processing. It makes it easy to change things,
to see how a headline would look in larger tvpe or to drag
a paragraph with a mouse instead of peeling it from beneath
its Scotch tape. Il draws straight lines for you. It lets you
zoom in on a coiner or see a view of the whole page. And
it saves your finished composition as a disk file, ready for
the laser printer or phototvpesetter.

What desktop publishing programs do with text is a con-
tinuation of the formatting done by good word processors.
The latter can go beyond the crude, insert-extra-spaces jus-
tification used to align the margins of mono-spaced text
(where every character has the same width, such as '/„ inch)
and support proportional spacing (where an i is skinnier
than an A/). Desktop publishing programs, whether import-
ing a word processing file or letting you type words directly,
add extra precision in pouring text into columns or wrapping
it around a protruding piece of art, with typesetter-style
control of features like kerning (adjusting the space between
letters, moving an o under an overhanging T) and leading
(spacing between lines).

Desktop publishing programs also support many different
fonts — Times, Bookman, Helvetica, Palatino, Zapf Chancery
and so forth — in stvles such as roman (regular), bold and
italic, and in different sizes. Fonts and spacing are measured
in points ('/ 7 _, inch), other page areas — such as line or column
length (measure) and margins — in picas (V s inch). Most word
processors support superscripts or subscripts; desktop pub-
lishers add such options as drop caps (extra-large capitals,
extending below the first line of text, for the first letter in
an article, a holdover from medieval manuscripts).

Desktop publishing does not yet support color printing.
aside from the advanced labor of making different versions
or portions of a picture as four-color separations to be
overlaid at the print shop. There are, however, many ways
to merge graphics with type: importing clip art or files from
drawing or painting programs, or artwork or photos con-
verted to binary files by a digitizer or scanner.

What It Means

Points, picas, kerning, leading, halftones — all are terms and

concerns of conventional publishing. The only difference
with desktop publishing is that laying out a page on screen
instead of on a drawing table gives much more flexibility
for making changes and playing the designer's equivalent of
spreadsheet jockeys" "what-if" games. Put that graph a few
inches lower, split that column with a boxed quote, try the
whole thing in two columns instead of three, use the "undo"
command if your creative genius gets out of hand.

Page design, like drawing or sculpture, is hard. The great
advantage of desktop publishing is that many individuals,
community groups and businesses can save time and money
by producing printed material themselves instead of hiring
it out. This can result in substantial savings for such everyday
office items as in-house bulletins, ads, announcements, forms,
flyers, brochures, mentis and letterhead. With larger, more
complex undertakings— annual reports, magazines, books —
the economics may be outweighed by considerations of qual-
ity and professional appearance.

For any task, however, the drawback of desktop publishing
is that it cannot turn copywriters into artists, or executives
into paste-up aces. Too many novice desktop publishers com-
mit the same sin of mouse-driven word processor owners —
font abuse. Such users — or abusers — can produce documents
that, in the words of computer trends reporter Andrew
Pollack, "resemble pasted-together ransom notes." In a New
York Times article this past October. Pol-
lack related the exasperation of one com
pany executive who had to revoke
the "font authority" of an
overly eclectic desktop en-
thusiast in her employ
Combine that with
ail the cute clip
art cartoon fig-
ures ready to
be peppered
all over a page,
and the mind
reels.

Still, the po-
tential dangers of

desktop publishing are small com-
pared to an inadvertent spreadsheet recalculation or word
processing search-and-replace. Viewed philosophically,
anything that puts the power of the press into more hands
is a democratic boon; more pragmatically, anything that gives
vour message a better chance of being read or makes you
look more professional for less money is something worth
following. Desktop publishing is the ultimate rebuttal to
those who said the computer would create a paperless office,
but at least it gives us offices full of good-looking paper.

Eric Grevstad is a former Senior Writer for Micro-
computing and Review Editor of inCider, and
edited inCider's special Begin Computing issue.
He now contributes to several magazines.

/

AmigaWorld 31

5. Font Support

The trio differs widely when it comes
to font handling. Publisher 1000 takes
the most simplistic approach by assum-
ing you will be printing with a clot ma-
trix printer. To its credit, in addition to
(wo Amiga fonts, it supplies a handful
of others that not only print fairly well
but are highly legible on the screen.
More fonts are available on a separate
disk. As for the Amiga fonts, the less
said about using these for desktop pub-
lishing the better.

City Desk covers all the bases, pro-
viding support for matrix, PostScript
and Hewlett-Packard laser printers. To
be frank, it makes little use of the power
of PostScript, as only a few typefaces
and sizes are available. The same is (rue
of its handling of the H-P LaserJet, be-
cause only two of its font cartridges arc
supported. A full complement of
cruddy Amiga fonts is supplied, which
look predictably foul on the screen and
print almost as badly. Who designed
these clunkers, anyway?

PageSetter was designed originally
with matrix printers in mind and comes
with just the Amiga fonts. For some rea-
son they display better than their coun-
terparts in City Desk but print much
ihe same. Extra fonts, including such
standards as Helvetica and Times Ro-
man, are available on a separate Fontse!

disk. Things get more interesting, however, with the addition
of the LaserScript and Jet utility programs, which let you
print PageSetter documents willi PostScript and HP LaserJet
printers. Again, the range of fonts and sizes is limited, al-
though a utility is provided to resize fonts as needed. The
program does allow you to get at such meaty aspects of
PostScript as combining and rotatitig pages,

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Now that we have put our three programs through a battery
of separate tests, let's see how they stack up in an overall
comparison of features and performance.

Publisher 1000

While lacking a number of desirable features, Publisher 1000
is the easiest of the three to master and work with, in large
part because of its smooth page scrolling, simple movement
between views and uncluttered screen display. Its manual is
minimal but clear, although the typos and spelling mistakes
are annoying. While the package is short on frills, it does
have a nice pattern editor utility which can be run at the
same time as Publisher 1000 to create patterns for filling
lines or boxes. On the negative side is the program's frequent
disk accesses, lack of laser primer support and absence of a

PRODUCT
INFORMATION

PageSetter Lie
Gold Disk Inc.
PC) Box 789
Streetsville, Ont. L5M 2C2

Canada
416/828-0913

SI 49.95
Requires 512K

Publisher 1000 1.0

Brown-Wagh Publishing

16795 Lark Ave., Suite 210

Los Gatos, CA 95030

408/395-3838

$199.95
Requires 512K

City Desk 1.0

MicroSearch Inc.

9896 Southeast Freeway

Houston, TX 77074

713/988-2818

$149.95

Requires 512K (2 MB recommended)

graphics editor. But if vou will be cre-
ating documents with a matrix printer,
are willing to invest in more fouls and
value ihe program's leaii-and-meaii feel.
Publisher 1000 could be for vou.

City Desk

The only program under review with
built-in support for matrix, H-P and
PostScript printers. City Desk is also
unique in providing the ability to (low
text automatically throughout a publi-
cation. This should make it the clear
choice for working with lengthy docu-
ments, but its superiority here is tem-
pered by its relatively clumsy handling
of text blocks and view changing. The
documentation is comprehensive
enough, despite a short, confusing tu-
torial. The program design, however,
runs counter to efficient document pro-
duction. On a 51 2K system, for exam-
ple, there is not enough memory to
print a document; you must exit City
Desk and run a separate print utility,
which does not make for a smooth work
cycle. Do not expect to do any useful
work with its bare-bones graphics edi-
tor, either. If you need the printer sup-
port and can live with die clunky feel
of the program, City Desk may be worth
investigating.

PageSetter

With a longer heritage than its peers,
one would expect PageSetter to be a serious effort. The
program is certainly loaded with features, and the full-fea-
tured text and graphics editors arc standouts. Controlling
views and page movement is eccentric but not unmaneagable
and is aided by the on-screen rulers. Although the screen
refreshes every time you move the page, this is balanced by
PagcSetler's avoidance of disk accesses. While the basic ver-
sion supports only matrix printers, the availabliliiv of ad-
ditional fonts and laser printer support make this a truly
useful program. The best of the bunch? I'd say so.

THE BAD NEWS

None of these programs is a real stinker, but none of them
represents serious competition for similar products in the
MS-DOS and Macintosh environments. All lack such impor-
tant features as hyphenation, master pages, an undo com-
mand, full PostScript support, etc. Until updates or next-
generation products appear, however, they represent i In-
state of the art in Amiga desktop publishing. ■

Chris Dickman is the Director of Desktop Documentation Services,
a Toronto firm providing writing, editing and design services using
desktop publishing technology. Write to him c/o AmigaWorld edi-
torial, tif) Elm St.. Peterborough. Ml OJ-HS.

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RAMS FOR THE AM

By Sheldon Leemon

ONLY A YEAR ago, the possibility of creating three-dimensional graphics and animation with
commercial software packages on small, inexpensive microcomputers would have seemed remote at
the very least. About that time, however, two Amiga developers working independently of each other
produced startlingly realistic 3-D graphics programs that tapped the powerful potential of the Amiga's
graphics capabilities. Both of these individually conceived programs have now been picked up by
commercial software companies and are available to the general user at fairly modest prices.

Part of the now famous "juggler" program of Eric Graham is the basis for a package marketed
under the name Sculpt 3D by Byte by Byte. At this stage the commercial version is only an object-
creation and drawing program, not a full-fledged animation package (although Byte by Byte was to
have brought to market another Graham creation. Sculpt Animate 3D, by the end of 1987 to provide
the necessary animation facilities for Sculpt). Meanwhile, the short animation sequences in realistic
3-D unveiled by Allen Hastings in late 1986 have evolved into the program VideoScape 3D now
marketed by Aegis Development. It provides facilities for both the creation and animation of three-
dimensional objects.

Although not strictly comparable because of the animation dimension missing in Sculpt 3D, both
of these programs are revolutionary in what they are likely to set off in the future development of
graphics on the Amiga. Our examination of the programs does make comparisons between them
where relevant, but also accentuates the individually distinct characteristics of each.

VideoScape 3D

Qn November of 1980, at the awards banquet of the
Second Amiga Developer's Conference, an Amiga
user named Allen Hastings presented a pair of re-
markable short Films. Each frame of both had been
created on the Amiga and then filmed individually
with a 16mm movie camera. The realistic 3-D ani-
mal ion electrified the crowd, whose members had clearly
never seen this kind of work done on such a small computer
system. Aegis Development prevailed upon Mr. Hastings to
share his movie-making techniques, and the result is a pow-
erful 3-D animation package called VideoScape 3D.

The main focus of VideoScape 3D is the creation and

playback of frames of video animation. These animated
scenes may be played back in short segments at speeds of
up to 30 frames per second and taped with a video recorder.
They may also be taped a frame at a time, using more
sophisticated and costly video gear or 16mm movie equip-
ment. Although you may be inspired to make short films, as
Mr. Hastings did, it is more likely that voit will want to use
VideoScape to create animated logos or title sequences for
videotapes.

In order to create an animated scene with VideoScape 3D,
you must first create the files thai describe the shape of each
object in the scene and the files that describe the motion of

34 January 1988

each object. Then, you must create a Tile that describes ihe
position and motion of the "camera" used to view the scene.
Let's take a look at each of these preliminary steps.

Getting Into Shape(s): Object Geometry Files
The files describing the shape of the 3-D objects are called
Object Geometry files. VideoScapc provides several methods
for creating these files, but none are particularly easy to use
or powerful. The first is called the Easy Geometry Generator
program (EGG), which can be used to create regular objects,
such as a box, faceted sphere, cone or cylinder. You can also
use it to create very specialized shapes, such as a star field,
a flat tiled surface or a ring of distant mountains. Unlike
most Amiga programs, EGG is not at all interactive. When
you run the program, it asks you a series of questions about
the objects, which vou must answer in sequence. It does not
show you a picture of the object, nor does it give you a
second chance to change your mind after you have answered.
When you are finished, you can save the object file and end
the program, or abort, but you cannot create another object
without running the program again. In order to use this
program successfully, you must plan your answers in advance
and type them in carefully.

Another object-creation utility is the Object Composition

Tool (OCT), which allows you to load one or more objects
and then edit and/or combine them. You can use it to change
an object's size, position, orientation or color. All objects
loaded and edited in the same session are saved as a single
object file. The user interface for the OCT program is exactly
the same as that of EGG.

The third of these utility programs is Designer 3D. This
is actually a special version of the shareware program ROT
by Colin French. This program provides a much more in-
teractive object creation environment, because it allows you
to enter point coordinates and see the resulting polygons
displayed in a three-window view. Its editor is quite simple,
however, and limited to 98 points in 98 polygons. It makes
no provision for building "standard" shapes, such as cubes,
pyramids and spheres, and provides no fancy editing tools.
Although it allows you to save a shape in ROT or VideoScapc
format, it only loads ROT shapes.

Because all of the files used by VideoScapc are plain ASCII
text files, you may also create an object geometry file with a
text editor. Using this method entails multiple hardships.
First, you must figure out every coordinate of every point,
a task requiring a thorough knowledge of the mathematics
of solid geometry. Next, you must enter each of these coor-
dinates into a text file, along with the color code for each

AmigaWorld 35

polygon they create. To complicate matters further, the points
must be listed in the correct order (clockwise from their
visible side), and it is up to you to make sure that all polygons
listed lie in the same plane.

As tedious as all this sounds, it appears that in order to
make complex objects, you have to resort to this method at
least some of the time. For example, although the OCT
program can be used to combine two objects, VideoScape
cannot draw intersecting objects. The onlv way to create such
objects, ihercfore, is (o manually edit the object text file so
as to break the intersecting objects down into sub-objects.
To assist in this task, the manual suggests first plotting out
all objects on graph paper. Such a suggestion seems fairly
suspect in itself. Isn't the whole point of having powerful
personal computers like the Amiga to do away with crude
tools like graph paper?

The next task is to define (he movement of each object
and ofthc camera thai is used as the viewpoint for the scene.
There are actually two types of movement to describe: po-
sitional movement, the physical movement ofthc object from
one point to another in 3D space, and rotational motion, in
which llie object twists around while staying in the same

VideoScape 3D— main screen

spot, file manual explains this in aviation terms, although
it uses such terminology incorrectly. In the manual. Pitch
refers to rotation around the X axis (correct), while Heading
is used to describe rotation around the Y axis (the correct
term would have been "Yaw"). Bank refers to rotation around
the Z axis ("Roll" would have been the correct choice). In
any event, once you accept VidcoScape's choice of terms,
you can proceed without further confusion. Rotational move-
ment is relative to a described "reference point." usually the
center of the object, about which it rotates.

In a VideoScape motion file, vou describe the object's
position in the starting and ending frames, called the "key-
frames." You specify also the number of intermediate frames,
called "i weens." The program then plots automatically the
intermediate positions to provide smooth animation. The
camera movement file format is identical to that of the object
movement file. You place the camera at a starting and ending
position, and VideoScape "moves" the camera smoothly.
Note, however, you are responsible for making sure that the

camera stays pointed at the scene. You cannot jusl ask the
camera to "Hack" a particular object. Object motion and
camera motion files must be created with a text editor. It is
possible, however, to move manually the objects and camera
using the Command Window.

Control Central: VidcoScape's Command Window

The command window is the main part of the program, by
which you put together all of the elements described above
to form your animation. Its controls are divided into four
panels. The Object Description panel allows you to load
object geometry files and object motion files. It also allows
you to enter manually the motion information for an object,
as well as a position offset, so that you can have two copies
of the same object in the scene at once. Finally, this panel
lets you "nictamorph" the last iwo objects loaded, so that
during the scene, the second to last object loaded seems to
change shape into the most recently loaded object.

The second panel is called Camera Motion, and it is used
to load camera motion files. You may also choose to control
the camera manually using the numeric keypad during dis-
play ofthc animation. Initial and final camera zoom factors
may be entered, so thai the camera zooms smoothlv in or
otit during (he animation.

The third panel provides Viewing Options. Full overscan
is used to make the picture occupy the entire viewing area
of the screen. Four resolutions are available, ranging from
352 x 220 to 704 x 440. The objects in a scene can In-
drawn either as wire-frame models or as solid polygons with
hidden line removal. A fixed palette of 32 colors is used for
3?>2-across pictures, while l(i colors are used for pictures with
higher horizontal resolution. The objects themselves may be
created only in one of l(i selectable colors (actually onlv 12
are currently used). Doing some color blending does allow
you to simulate additional colors. These arc used for shading
to provide textures, such as matte or glossy finishes. Only
one distant light source is used, the direction of which may
be controlled, and the diffuse lighting casts no shadows. The
Viewing panel also lets you load IFF foreground and back-
ground pictures; both are loaded every frame, the former
before object rendering and the latter after object rendering.

The Screen panel allows you to load and save all of the
settings for a scene, including object geometry, object motion,
camera motion and viewing option. Il also allows you to
begin the animation. This is displayed on a separate screen,
either a frame at a time or continuously. Because objects are
constructed from solid polygons, without much shading, each
frame takes only a few seconds at most to draw. Once a
frame is drawn, you can save it to an IFF picture file with a
single key stroke.

The program includes support for single-frame video re-
corders, allowing them to record each frame unattended.
Although prices for such equipment are expected to come
down dramatically, it is still quite expensive. A much more
affordable way to record the scene is to save il Rrsl as an
Anim file. This is an IFF animation file containing the initial
scene, plus information about the changes between frames.
It can be used with the player program included in the
package to display short scenes at full animation speed.
Although Aegis has been trying to make Anim a standard *

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Many superb animations have been created already with
VideoScape 3D. demonstrating clearly the power of this
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program is intended for the video professional or advanced
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lack thereof, are a real weak point. Using a text editor to
create object and motion script files requires a firm grasp
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VideoScape users who envy the object creation facilities of
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VideoScape users.

Even after your objects are created, you should be prepared
to invest a lot of lime in order lo produce a few seconds of
animation. Some extra memory and a hard disk would help,
too. Although the program runs on a 51 2K machine, it cannot
record an Anim file without at least a megabyte: because a
few seconds of fairly complex animation can produce an
Anim file much larger than the 880K that can fit on a floppy,
you will need a hard disk to cut down on the number of
Anim scenes required for your animation.

VideoScape 3D has its limitations. In order to draw the
objects as quickly as possible (a must when generating many
frames of animation), it restricts severely the color palette
selection, and it does not use the 4,09n-color HAM mode.
Also, it does not allow for shading of curved surfaces to
make them appear more rounded. As a result the images it
produces tend to be abit flat and lifeless. Nonetheless, despite
these limitations, it presents the user who is willing to make
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mirrored balls. The moving shadows and reflections
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objects, which can then be viewed from any angle. It's useful
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as asmooth animation. Byte by Byte had scheduled for release
in late 1987 a separate animation package called Sculpt
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Sculpt provides a curve tool that lets you create a number
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closed loop, you may use the Fill command to divide auto-
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Entering shapes point by point can he a tedious operation,
so Sculp! provides a number of built-in primitive shapes that
can be added 10 any scene. These include spheres, hemi-
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gram also allows you to duplicate any object that already
exists in the scene, so that you can, for example, turn a single
tree into a forest. A variation of the Duplicate command
allows you to "reflect" the object, creating its mirror image.

Because each of the built-in objects is actually composed
of many triangular faces, objects such as spheres and cones
are only approximations of rounded shapes. Spheres, for
example, are really pseudo-spheres made up of polygons, as

in a geodesic dome. When you add one of these objects, the
program prompts you to enter the number effaces for the
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If vou want the object to look more rounded. Sculpt has
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allows you to subdivide each face and to then apply the Be
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result is a pretty good approximation of a sphere. Secondly,
it allows you to apply to the object an attribute called smooth-
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the curved face, although angular in shape, appears to be
smooth. This feature distinguishes Sculpt from other 3-D
programs such as VideoScape, which cannot produce a
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Editing Features: Some Real "Grabbers"

Once you have added an object to your scene. Sculpt lets
you edit it in a number of ways. Most of these editing
operations are designed to work on the objects defined by

a set of selected vertices. Points can be selected with a mouse,
by using window gadgets, or with menu items. The simplest
form of editing allows you to erase all of the selected points
or edges, or those closest to the cursor. Another simple, but
effective, editing feature allows you to make the object larger
or smaller in any or all dimensions. You can also rotate the
object in anv dimension, choosing your own axis of rotation
with the cursor.

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are selected, the grabber simply moves the entire object
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symmetry in a specified number of steps. By spinning a circle
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donutsbaped object). Instead of spinning the cross-section
around, the extrude simply pulls it straight out into a third
dimension. The technique is similar to forcing molding clay
through a stencil. One common use for such a tool is building
3-D letters. You simply draw the letter and then pull it
outward to give it the dimension of depth,

The objects that you create with Sculpt 3D have inherent
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and its texture. Faces inherit the face color in effect at the
time of their creation. This color may be changed at any
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The texture attribute of an object face is handled in a
manner similar to that of its color. When an object face is
created, it also takes on the current texture. Possible textures
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their points of origin. A mirrored surface reflects light like
a colored mirror, while a luminous surface emits light of a
given color, rather than reflecting it. A glass surface reflects
part of the light and transmits the rest. The user may modify
the texture of a selected face at any point.

Drawing: Many Ways to Make the Scene

The balance of Sculpt's controls have to do with the way in
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marks the position and angle from which the scene is viewed
(the camera), and the target marks the position being ob-
served. The width of view of the observer may be varied
using a variety of lens settings. In order for the observer to
"see" anything, a lighting source(s) must be added. These
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which the user may vary as desired. Numerous lighting
sources may be used, although each additional one increases
the time required to draw the picture. The user may also
select the brightness of the background (ambient) lighting.
Light exposure is normally automatic, but may be controlled
manually. As pictures often require the depiction of the sky
or ground, Sculpt can generate automatically such a
background.

The user may specify that the program draw a scene in
low-resolution, high-resolution, interlaced or noninterlaced
modes. The program can display a scene using anywhere
from two bit planes of color (four colors) to six bit planes
(the 4,096-color HAM mode). The HAM mode allows the
most lifelike lighting effects, but lakes the longest to draw.
Sculpt can also create an image with more than six bit planes
that can be written to a file for use with a hardware frame
buffer device capable of a higher resolution than the normal
Amiga screen.

Sculpt features a number of different drawing modes,
which vary in the amount of detail produced and the amount
of time taken to complete the drawing. The simplest mode
is wire-frame drawing, which takes only a few seconds to
complete. The next level up is called painting mode, in which
the objects arc displayed as colored polygons, with color and
shading determined by the light sources. Color does not vary,
however, within a single triangular face. This simple type of
rendering is roughly comparable to the method used in
VideoScape 3D.

The final two modes use a technique called ray-tracing,
which computes the color of each pixel on the screen on the
basis of the reflection of light rays. The simpler ray-tracing
mode, snapshot, varies color and shading across flat surfaces,
but does not take into account the effect of shadows. The
more complex photo mode portrays shadows realistically.
Both ray-tracing modes require a long time to draw an entire
picture — up to several hours for a complex set of objects.
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scan mode).

Because it may lake up to several hours to draw a complex
scene in the most detailed drawing mode, Sculpt provides a
special batch mode that allows the user to designate a number
of scenes to be drawn, one after another. Each image is saved
to a file on disk as it is completed. In addition lo reading
files saved in its own internal format, Sculpt will also read

Sculpt 3D — main screen

text flics that use its script language. This language allows
the user to access virtually every feature of Sculpt from a
text file, which allows for precise control and debugging of
a scene. Although the program can read these script files, it
cannot, however, save an existing scene as a text file.

With All Precincts Reporting. . .

Overall. Sculpt's object-editing facilities are outstanding. Al-
though somewhat complex, the editing tools provided are
quite powerful. After you have used them for a while, you
will find yourself becoming adept at creating even complex
objects. Sculpt's drawing capabilities are also quite good. The
ray-tracing modes produce extremely realistic results, even
though they exact their toll in the lime required to draw
scenes. Complex scenes, particularly those with mirrored or
glass surfaces, take hours lo draw using the ray-tracing modes.
An updated version of Sculpt (release 1.1) is available, how-
ever, that cuts the time it takes to ray-trace a scene by up to
65 percent. Registered owners of the 1.0 version can receive
this update from Byte by Byte for the cost of postage and
handling. Be aware, however, that even with this time-saving
improvement, ray-tracing is a slow process. It also takes a
fair amount of memory. Although it is possible to use the
program with only 512K of memory, at least a megabyte is
required for some of the more complex objects. Despite
these limitations, however, the realism of the scenes that you
can create, and the ease (if not the speed) with which you
can create them, make Sculpt 3D well worth considering. ■

Sheldon Leemon is the author (/Inside Amiga Graphics and other
books, and he is a frequent contributor to many computer publications.
Write to him do Amiga World, Editorial Depl., 80 Elm St., Peter-
borough, NH 03458.

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There's buried treasure doum tfiere in the source
code of many public domain offerings.

By Rob Peck

SOURCE CODE IS the English-like instructions a pro-
grammer writes to tell the computer what to do — i.e.,
the program before it has been interpreted, assembled
or compiled into the object code (machine language)
that is understandable to the computer. You can think
of source code as what lies beneath the surface, so to
speak, of a program. And diere, down in the depths,
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grams already out there: Since Fish I kicked off the
Amiga public domain movement in December 1985,
we have had Amicus, KAUG and numerous others. We
also have bulletin board systems that offer a wide vari-
ety of programs, some of which still distribute their
source code.

The source programs have been a great way to learn
how to use some of the system routines. Often a well-
organized example can serve to make the descriptions
in a developer's manual make a lot more sense. You
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quired if you had to invent everything on your own.

However, once you have learned from one or two of
a particular kind of program, it is easy to gloss over
tools that might be buried within the source code of
what you might consider otherwise to be a pretty stan-
dard application. I wrote this article to point out a few
of the tools I found and to encourage you to browse
your own public domain sources a few times just to see
what surprises or inspirations might lie therein.

I will concentrate primarily on the FISH collection of
public domain disks, because this group is nearly com-
plete (as of this writing there are 90 disks available). I
tend to be a collector of languages and tools, as well as
being a tool builder (for example, the AudioTools from
the July/Aug. issue of Amiga World, p. 18). Thus, I like to
keep my eyes open for things that would make my own
job easier.

What You See is What You'll Get

A prime example of this discovery-by-browsing hap-
pened about 18 months ago, when I encountered a pro-
gram called PDTerm by Michael Mclnerny on FISH 14.
By the time this disk became available, there were al-
ready several terminal programs available for the
Amiga, both commercial and public domain. Nearly all
of them had more capabilities than PDTerm. I obtained
disk 14 at the same time as I received a batch of other
disks with terminal programs. That made it highly un-
likely that I would notice anything unusual about
it. Bring up the program . . . try it . . . works
fine . . . standard menus . . . okay, go on to something
else. Well, just for the heck of it, I listed the source
code. Here's what I found in the main program
(lerminal.c):

struct Menu *MenuHead;

I n i tMenu s ( )

I
struct Menu *CurrentMenu , *NewMenu(), *AddMenu();
struct Menultem *CurrentI ten, *SubItem,

*AddNevMenuItem( ) , *AddTtem( ) ,

*AddNewSubItem( ) ;

CurrentMenu = N'ewMenuf "Pro ject" , 60, 10
MenuHead = CurrentMenu;
Currentltem = AddNewMenuItem

(CurrentMenu, "About PDTerm" , 1 00
Currentltem = Addltem

(Currentltem, "Window");
Subltem = AddNewSuhl t em

(Currentltem, "to Back", 68, 11)
Subltem = Add I temCSubT t em , "to Fro
Currentltem ■ Addltem

(Current I tern, "Quit");

.11);

nt");

/*

more menu initialization) */

SetMenuStripC Terminal Window, MenuHead);
1

Aha, menus made easier! Michael Mclnerny provided
a nice set of functions that build simple menus. These
functions allocate memory the size of the Menu and
Menultem data structures, initialize them his way
(color, kind of text, shape and so forth), then return a
pointer to the end of the current list of items or sub-
items. This allows other similar functions to be used to
link things together into a complete menu that he can

link to his window. Corresponding fuctions are pro-
vided to return the memory to the system when the
program is finished.

Imagine being able to look at the source code and see
the menus as they will appear on screen. This certainly
will make it much easier to debug a program.

The dynamic menu creation functions are all con-
tained in menus.c and include the following:

N'ewMenu, AddMenu— takes care of the title bar
XewMenuItem, AddXewMenuItem— first-level menus

AddNewSubl tern— second-level menus

Disposeltem, Disposeltems — free the memorv
used by the the preceding two functions

DisposeMenu, DisposeMenus— free menu memory
used

NewIText, AddlText, DisposelText— internal

functions for IntuiText within menu items
and subitems

This group of functions was a real find, especially con-
sidering that there was no commercially available prod-
uct at that time.

In addition to the menus.c file, PDTerm also includes
a file called consoles that contains a few functions that
make it easier to get to the console device. These rou-
tines are actually extracted from a program called
cons.c, written by Bob Burns of Amiga and myself, that
appears on FISH 5. In cons.c, we provided a set of con-
sole device tools, along with a set of macros that give
names to functions you would want the console to per-
form. These include:

CURSUP(c), CURSDOYVN(c), CURSFWD(c),
CURSBACK(c), Tab(c), Backspace(c) and so forth
where "c" is a pointer to a message data structure
that was initialized to talk to an opened console
device managing a particular window.

OpenConsole, CloseConsole, ConPutChar, ConPutStr,
QueueRead, ConGetChar and ConMayGetChar
which actuallv handle the console communications
and the basic functions on which the above
console macros are built.

If you need to use the console device, this group of
functions gives you a head start.

Pop Goes the Menu

Another menu item of unique interest appears on FISH
57. Splines, a drawing program created by Helene (Lee)
Taran, contains a complete package that allows you to
create pop-up menus on the Amiga. The normal Amiga
menu stvle is the pull-down menu, where you go to the
top of the screen, turn on the menus and pull them
down to make your selections. On some occasions, how-
ever, pop-up menus can be more convenient; w : herever
your mouse pointer is right now, that is where a menu
can be made to appear.

In Splines the pop-up menu is used to provide con-
text-sensitive selections — that is, a different kind ol

46 January 1 988

menu depending on exactly where on screen your
mouse cursor happens lo be. Although Splines is a
drawing program and may not be of particular interest
or use to everyone, the program chunk containing pop-
up menu creation could be very useful in a wide variety
of other programs. •

Despite the fact that Splines is a relatively small pack-
age, it also uses some other functions that are interest-
ing and unique. For instance, a function called
LockLayers prevents a program from trying to modify
the display while the pop-up is in place, while Swap-
BitsRastPortClipRect (what a mouthful!) allows you to
create an entire display off screen, then simultaneously
put your rectangle on screen while saving what is cur-
rently on the screen in the area you used for doing the
original drawing. Although the program might freshly
draw the menu each time that pop-up is called, you do
not see any of the intermediate steps. Helene Taran
made a good choice of functions to use for this.

Keep Those Request(er)s Coming . . .

In the area of requester routines, I found three public
domain items of interest. First, on a very basic level,
there is a tutorial from John Draper on FISH 1 under a
directory named Requesters. The tutorial provides a
good starting point and helpful hints and techniques
for creating both requesters and gadgets.

FISH disk 34 contains a File requester from Kevin
Clague modeled after the requester that DeluxePainl
uses to obtain the names of Files and directories. This
program uses a true requester, meaning that the reques-
ter stays where it was when it was opened and waits for
you to complete your selection before it disappears.

A source code edition of another, but less orthodox,
Fde name requester is found on FISH 41 under a direc-
tory named GetFilc. Written by Charlie Heath, the pro-
gram provides the expected function of allowing you to
retrieve the name of a file and the name of a directory.
An interesting wrinkle in this program, however, is that
this so-called requester is actually a full Intuition win-
dow. Using a window instead of a requester allows you

to employ the mouse to drag the File name requester
around on screen while deciding how to respond. Thus,
if the requester covers up something on which you are
presently working that might have a bearing on which
file you might wish to select, the requester can be
moved to allow viewing of what is underneath it. Char-
lie Heath generously grants his permission to use the
requester, as object code, in any commercial or non-
commercial program.

The items I've noted above are only a few of the use-
ful tool packages that are a part of the public domain
for the Amiga.

This article has only just scratched the surface. I am
sure that many of you have discovered other such tools
on your own.

So many people have contributed their time and ef-
forts to these programs that I wish I could mention all
of their names and thank them all for the tools we now
have. Thanks to the CATS (Commodore Amiga Techni-
cal Support) staff who have provided quite a few good
tools and demo materials and who tell us the "correct
way" to program certain things for the Amiga. And
thanks, too, to all of the folks who create these PD col-
lections for us to enjoy.

If you find something you like, tell the authors. If it
is shareware, register it with the authors. You will help
them pay for the time they spent in developing the
product you liked and encourage the creation of even
better tools. Who knows, you may receive the latest and
greatest version of the program when you register, or
additional documentation, or catch the author's ear for
suggested improvements. They will be happy to hear
from you.

Go ahead, browse through your disks again — there
just might be some buried treasures waiting for you.

Rob Peck is the author of Programmer's Guide to the
Amiga and was manager of technical documentation for
Amiga. You can contact him at: DATAPATH, PO Box 1828,
Los Catos, CA 95031.

USERS' CHOICE

The author of AmigaWorld'5 "The Best of Public Domain'
doffs his cap to his top PD choices of 1987.

By David T. McClellan

ALTHOUGH MANY MORE commercial software pack-
ages appeared on the Amiga market this past year, pub-
lic domain offerings still managed to keep pace. Mv list
of 1987 favorites will contain onlv "for-use" programs

(i.e., those productive little items that help you accom-
plish a variety of useful tasks, or those, like games
and graphics demos, that are for entertainment or

enjoyment). *-

AmigaWorld 47

A few caveats before we begin: First, because of
AmigaWorld's lead time, we will probably miss a few
good offerings that come on the public domain scene
in the latter part of 1987. In addition, my main sources
for public domain software are USENET, Fred Fish's

PIRACY VS. THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN

ALTHOUGH I AM a very vocal proponent of
public domain software, I don't condone software
piracy. If somebody sells a program in the com-
mercial marketplace, I have no right to use it
without paying for it. At exactly the time I was
writing this piece, a note came down USENET
discussing ten or twelve pirate bulletin boards
and the damage they were doing. Certain individ-
uals break the copy protection on recently-re-
leased software, upload it and then provide the
programs on these pirate bulletin boards — some-
times only a day or two after they hit the market.

To some people this may sound fine, but it's
only a short-term gain. The one thing that will
keep the Amiga going is a healthy market for its
software. If a program is put onto a pirate BBS,
the author loses several hundred sales and will
not be likely to write more Amiga programs. In
the IBM-PC market, many buyers might think
twice about unauthorized copying after the rash
of Lotus Development suits. But with the Amiga,
we ourselves are the marketplace. People who
steal from these authors are poisoning their own
seed corn. Report pirates when you find them,
and don't use them.O

— D.T.Mc.

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48 January 1988

collection, and various Amiga Bulletin Board Systems
(BBSs). Therefore, software from BIX, CompuServe and
some other services may not have trickled down into
my sources in time for me to write about it. Finally, I
also excluded shareware (pay-if youlike-it software). No
fee, only free will be our motto.

I have organized my choices into seven categories:
Command Processors (CL1— Command Line Inter-
face—replacements), Text Editors, Compilers/Assem-
biers, Terminal Emulators, Graphics and Sound
utilities. Games and Miscellanea.

Command Processors

The Berkeley C-Shell has long been my favorite com-
mand processor. As a veteran Unix programmer, I al-
ways have withdrawal symptoms when I switch over to
the Amiga and have to use the AtnigaDOS CLI. Fortu-
nately, Matt Dillon (whose USENET address is a Berke-
ley machine) decided to write and enhance Shell, a C-
Shelllike command processor for the Amiga, and he
and Steve Drew have added quite a bit to it over the
past year.

Like the Berkeley C-Shell, it supports aliasing (having
the shell remember an abbreviation for a long com-
mand and its arguments), history (having the shell re-
member and edit/reissue commands you issued a few
minutes ago), variables (named string which can be sub-
stituted into commands) and shell procedures (se-
quences of commands and flow-control expressions
similar to but more powerful than those run by the CLI
Execute command). It also has I/O redirection,
search paths for commands, and a number of
built-in utilities. The most recent version as of this
writing is Shell 2.06m.

Text Editors

Because I work on several different systems — Unix,
IBM PC, Amiga and Macintosh — I hate having to

learn a new editor for each machine. I prefer an edi-
tor that I can use oil as many of the above systems as
possible. It also has to be fairly powerful, fast, custom-
izable and, preferably, public domain (so that the user
can port it to any new system). MicroEmacs, a small
version of Emacs, fits all these requirements, It has
many of the features found in the mainframe versions
all the way back to Richard Stallman's first Emacs edi-
tor at M.I.T. (Emacs is a full-screen, customizable and
programmable editor, with more features than you can
shake a mouse at. Most commercial versions run on
mainframes and large minis.) Several years back, Dave
Conroy wrote MicroEmacs to run on much smaller ma-
chines. Daniel Lawrence picked it up and continues to
provide extensive enhancements. MicroEmacs now runs
on most Unix, Amiga and VAX VMS systems, as well as
on all MS-DOS machines. Atari and several more-ob-
scure systems. (Commodore-Amiga even adapted a copy
to Workbench menuing and included it with the 1.2
toolkit.)

MicroEmacs is a full-screen editor with a customiza-
ble keyboard, programmable macros, windows (in its
own style, not that of the Workbench), multiple file ed-

king, simple word processing features and more. It is
fast even on my antique IBM PC, and, more impor-
tantly, it doesn't get in my face. The most recent version 1
have is MicroEmacs 3.8i; I use it on my PC and Amiga,
and on the Sperry Unix system at work. MicroEmacs
also comes with a substantial and very useful manual.

Languages/ Assemblers

Although compilers and assemblers are difficult to
write, there are several public domain offerings avail-
able for the Amiga. XLISP, an object-oriented Lisp in-
terpreter that runs on the Amiga, IBM PC, Unix and
other systems, is my personal favorite. Version 1,7 is the
most current. Also available are an assembler (Asm or
Asm68k) and compilers for Moduia-Il and a structured,
fast language called Draco.

Terminal Emulators

One thing I don't need more of is hardware. With two
computers and a lot of books in my little office at
home, I live under a constant threat that my wife will
bulldoze the lot out the window. As a result, my com-
puters do double duty as terminals. For an emulation
program, I normally use Kermit (see July/Aug. '86 issue
of Amiga World for my article on C-Kermit — a program
that Jack Rouse of Cary, NC did an excellent job of
porting to the Amiga). Not all BBSs, however, support
the Kermit protocol; consequently, I have to use an em-
ulator that also supports the XMODEM file-transfer
protocol.

VT100, an excellent menu-driven VT100 emulator
written by Dave Wecker, provides both protocols in ad-
dition to simple text capture (and does a good simula-
tion of a VT100 as well). It handles baud rates from 300
to 9600 and wildcards for sending/getting batches of
files. VT100 also runs scripts with commands for every-
thing available via menu as well as enough other com-
mands to support automated log-on to other systems.

Graphics and Sound Programs

It is an unfortunate (act that areas in which commercial
programs are available early and in good qualitv often
have very little public domain software. With good, in-
expensive graphics and sound (music) software avail-
able, Amiga users — even those on beer-and-twinkies
budgets — could afford the commercial offerings almost
from the very beginning.

Almost all non-commercial graphics programs with
which I am familiar fall into three categories: picture/
animation players, demos and display hacks (such as
the Boing demo or Eric Graham's Juggler demo), and
actual artwork. The one exception I've found is a re-
cent 3-D solid editor/animatior named ROT, written by
C. French. With it, you can create simple 3-D objects
with polygonal surfaces using a simple wire-frame edi-
tor, color the surfaces, and build 24-frame animations.
These animations can move and rotate the objects in
three dimensions.

We find the same situation holds true for sound. The
available public domain items are mostly for playing,
not creating, music or other audio output. Digitized

I'VE DOWNLOADED MANY GOOD PIECES OF ART-

WORK FROM THE BBSs: CARTOON AND COMIC

BOOK CHARACTERS, PAINTINGS AND OTHER

GEMS. THERE'S GOOD MUSIC, TOO— CLASSICAL,

JAZZ, FOLK, ROCK AND MOVIE SCORES.

sound players, song players and songs represent the
majority of free music offerings. (If, however, I've
missed a good public domain paint, draw, or make-mu-
sic program, please forgive the omission and let me
know where it is.)

Some of my favorite graphic demos are "display
hacks" written by Leo Schwab. RobotRoff is hilarious
and my favorite. Sorry, no further explanation is of-
fered, as it might ruin the effect.

Since programs were unavailable, I've downloaded
many good pieces of artwork from the BBSs: cartoon
and comic hook characters, paintings and other gems.
There are also a good many pieces of music — classical,
jazz, folk, rock and movie scores. I use SHOW to dis-
play pictures; it and several others are available on
most BBSs (look for IFF picture displayers). I use
SOUND to play IFF format files and JUKEBOX for
jukebox files; most other music can only he played with
the commercial package that created it.

Games

One of my favorites among public domain games is
Hack, which John Toebes has ported to, and main-
tained on, the Amiga. It is a mapon-the-screen adven-
ture game with mazes, monsters, weapons, magic and
variability. There are also a number of public domain
versions of board games available. Some good BBS
board game offerings include Othello, Go-Moku, chess
and Clue. Gaming is typically well supported in the
public domain community.

Miscellanea

There are good programs that refuse to fit in any
niches. StarPlot is my choice for inclusion in a "miscel-
lanea" covering such programs. Written by grad student
Darrin West, it is distributed on USENET along with a
mass of star data (locations, brightness and so forth). If
you provide the longitude (right ascension), latitude
(declenation) and width of the field of view you want,
all in degrees, it plots the requested area of the night
sky on the Amiga's screen. The picture is excellent and
the program is a lot of fun. ■

David T. MrCtellan is a contributing editor to AmigaWorld.
Write to him at KM Chevron Circle, Cary, NC 27511.

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By Mark L. Van Name and William B. Catchings

ONE OF THE DEMONS that has plagued
the Amiga since its announcement is a
vague fear of many potential users that it is
little more than a game machine. To help to
counter thai fear, many of us have tried
hard to show how much real work it can
do. We have written programming tutorials,
discussed hardware and software, and, in
general, focused on its role as a serious
computing tool for the programmer, the
businessman and oilier professionals.

Well, folks, we're well into the holiday
season, and there's still some time to kick
back and enjoy! The Amiga is a great game
machine, after all. For this column we have
buried the spreadsheets (we will return to
them next time) and compilers under a tall
stack of wonderful diversions, from action
and adventure games to sports simulations
and games of strategy.

I jet's make one thing clear right up front:
this column is not a serious review of Amiga
games. It is a list of six games that we en-
joyed thoroughly, never found boring and
recommend heartily. We made our choices
with no pretense of objectivity. We did tiot
117 every game available. Even so, our
toughest task was choosing which games not
to discuss.

Not all of these games were originally
written for the Amiga. All are, however, vi-
sually, and often audibly, excellent. You
could justify buying a couple of them just to
show off the power of your Amiga. Here, in
alphabetical order by title, are six fun
games that should provide you with many
enjoyable hours.

One last thing: we feel obliged 10 warn

you that all of these games can be addictive
and may consume a large part of your life!

Defender of the Crown

This is one of the most visually stunning
games we have seen. Hiding behind the
pretty scenes is a simple strategy game with
some rudimentary action sequences. You
play a Saxon lord trying to reunite Britain
under Saxon, rather than Norman, rule.
Britain is divided into many territories, and
to reunite it you must conquer all of them.
You conquer territory by funding campaign
armies and sending them out to battle. Your
income is based on how much land you
control. The setup of your armies and the
major battles are done rather convention-
ally with no graphics.

The graphics come into play in other fac-
ets of the game. For example, when you are
desperate for money you can raid the trea-
suries of other castles. You then are pre-
sented with a scene in which you and your
band of men must fight past the castle
guard quickly enough to grab die money
and run. (ousts provide another nice set of
illustrations. You can choose to joust for ci-
ther territory or fame. You are shown the
horse and rider racing at you, and you must
hold your lance steady and hit your oppo-
nent perfectly to unseat him. Another set of
images appear when you attack a castle with
a catapult. You can watch as die wall crum-
bles under your attack.

While few of these action sequences can
stand up to the state of the art in arcade
games, all are a pleasure to watch. The
strategy game underlying it can wear thin.

but Defender of the Crown is a great way to
show off the Amiga's power.

Deja Vu

Deja Vu traces its lineage to one of the
more venerable computer games, Adven-
ture. It surpasses its ancestors by including
graphics. While not the first program to
bring graphics to an exploration game, it is
one of the best. Instead of describing a
scene to you, it shows you a picture of the
room or place in a window. Another win-
dow contains images of the things you are
carrying, your "inventory." You find objects
by spotting I hem on the screen or by
"opening" other objects and examining the
contents. You can drag objects into and out
of your inventory.

Your character is a hard-boiled 1940s de-
tective. You start the game with no memory
of who you are. As you explore the build-
ing in which you awakened and the sur-
rounding area, you Find clues that point to
you as a murderer. Because you know that
you are a good guy, you must find out who
you arc and who is trying to frame you.

We have not completed this game, but so
far we arc having a blast. (We must confess
to having ordered a clue book in a moment
of desperation.) As is true of most games of
this type, you must inspect everything. We
were stuck once because we did not think
to "open" a corpse.

Ibis game was originally developed for
the Macintosh, but the Amiga version is
well done. It runs from the Workbench and
returns you there when you leave it. Few
Amiga games are so well behaved. If you >■

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like Adventure-style exploration games, you
will have a great time with Deja Vu.

Earl Weaver Baseball

If you are a baseball fan, Earl Weaver Base-
ball is a must. (See ibe Nov. '87 issue of
AmigaWorld for a feature-length review of
Earl Weaver Baseball.) You can play it pri-
marily for strategy or action, or both. You
can control not only every pitch and batter,
but also the lineup and the "plays." There is
nothing quite like pulling Bob Gibson from
the mound to bring in Sandy Koufax as a
reliever! You will need to consider such sub-
stitutions when you see the batting order:
Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig all
await you. If that's not bad enough, the op-
posing pitcher is Cy Young.

You can control virtually everything. You
can pick all-star teams from the disk or cre-
ate your own. You can even pick a ballpark
or build a new one. The Green Monster in
Eenway adds a certain touch of realism. You
can concentrate only on managing the
team, or you can control die individual
players as if you were playing an arcade
game, or you can control it all. You can
play the bunt by having the third baseman
charge. Shift the outfield to accommodate a
pull hitter, especially if the wind is blowing
that way.

Ibis game is tough to master. Bill, our
sports expert, still gels whumped consis-
tently. It is full of little touches, however,
that make the losses worthwhile. One lime

there was a close call at first base when our
runner looked safe. Much to our surprise
our manager came running out of the dug-
out to argue the call! He even kicked up a
little dirt at the ump. Sometimes throws to
first sail over the first baseman's head.
Pitches can get away from the catcher. The
more you play this game, the more you'll
appreciate it.

Julius Erving and Larry Bird
Go One-on-One

This game is playground one-on-one basket-
ball at its best: Dr. J versus Larry Bird. You
can use the Doc's superior speed, as he
fakes first left, then right, and then drives
around Bird for an easy two. You can lei
Bird get off a quick three-pointer barely a
step in from the edge of the court. The
graphics are good and the sound is wonder-
ful, particularly in stereo. If you have
needed an excuse to hook your Amiga to a
receiver, wail no longer. As the players drib-
ble from right to left, the sound follows.
The fans on each side cheer for a different
player.

Ibis game was one of the first for the
Amiga. It has stood up well over time. It
offers plenty of options, and the computer
opponent plays a good game with enough
different skill levels for everyone.

Marble Madness

Marble Madness is an action game that is
based on an earlier arcade version. Your

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job is to guide a marble through a maze
within a given period of time. There are
five increasingly harder mazes. Unlike nor-
mal mazes, these have ramps, sheer cliffs,
rogue marbles trying to knock you off, odd
creatures out to get you, and a host of other
obstacles. The sound and graphics are ex-
cellent, and the game shows a great sense of
humor. If your marble falls off a cliff and
breaks, a little whisk broom comes and
sweeps you up. Sometimes a fairy wand
grants your marble extra seconds with
which to complete the maze.

With two players you can have even more
fun. You can race against each other in the
usual way, or you can let your marbles inter-
act. A gentle nudge when your opponent is
negotiating a tough lurn can be very satisfy-
ing. Marble Madness is also rumored to
have a hidden water maze. We never found
out how to reach it, but we had lots of fun
trying. The game is challenging, with
enough levels of difficulty to keep you com
ing back even after you have mastered it.

Shanghai

Some people who love board games remain
leery of computer games. Shanghai is a
computer game well suited to such people.
The game was a hit with everyone we per-
suaded to try it. It is based on the ancient
Chinese game of Mah-Jongg. The concept is
simple: you have to clear 144 tiles from the
game board by removing matching pairs of
tiles. Some of the tiles are stacked and
block each other so that the game stays
challenging.

It is deceptively simple. Although you
may lose several times in a row, you feel
sure each time that you will win the next
game. You also can play against other play-
ers. Once, two of our friends were playing
and they managed to clear all the tiles — no
minor feat. While they were talking, diey
noticed something happening on the empty
green "felt" playing surface. The middle of
il started to catch fire, a la Bonanza. A hole
the size of a silver dollar "burned" in the
middle of (he screen and ihen an eye
peered out and looked back and forth,
They guessed that it was a dragon. While
we could never reproduce this effect be
cause our disk died unexpectedly, it re-
mains one of the most unusual of the
mysteries we encountered.H

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But when our amazing biocomputer breaks down, the
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Dr. Ron Harper. Professor of Anatomy at the L'CLA
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Project, dealing with temporal lobe epilepsy. This se-
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If a seizure can be pinpointed within a discrete loca-
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deep brain data with much less invasive techniques and
then transfer the digitized color pictures onto the
Amiga.

According to Dr. Harper, "These digital brain images
let us know if surgery is even feasible. Over a period of
time, the unaffected hemisphere may learn the seizure
behavior of the affected hemisphere. Once this 'mirror-
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that much brain tissue without disrupting Other body
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they can get before surgery; the results have been much
better than we would have thought possible before
these imaging procedures."

Techniques of Computer Brain Imaging

L'ntil just recently, all a neurosurgeon had in work with
was the Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) scan,
which is best at showing bony structures, and deep im-
plant electrodes, which were difficult to place without
causing bleeding or excessive brain damage. However,
new computer imaging techniques, like the DSA, MIR
and PET scans, have revolutionized the field.

The introduction of Digital Subtraciive Angiography
(DSA) made it possible to see the blood vessels; Mag-
netic Imaging Resonance (MIR) shows the soft tissues of
the brain; the Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
scans reveal the location and intensity of brain activity
through the uptake of radioactive glucose. The data
captured on these expensive scanning machines can
then be transferred as images to low-cost microcomput-
ers like the Amiga so the surgeon can study them at his
or her convenience. Another advantage of using a mi-
crocomputer is the ability to layer these different scans,
each one showing different brain characteristics. Thus,
a DSA. PET, MIR and CAT scan can all be combined
into one image or can be shown side by side for more
data than any one of them would yield separately.

Now before placing deep implant electrodes, the neu-
rosurgeon can see a color picture on the Amiga of the
exact shape of the brain, the location of its blood ves-
sels and where interesting brain activity is occurring.
Electrodes can then be placed with precision where
they will cause minimal damage and yield maximal
information.

The UCLA Brain Imaging Project sees the Amiga as
its ideal choice for medical imaging, with a bright fu-
ture ahead for computer imaging of all kinds. Dr. Har-
per says, "The traditional CAT scans are going out.
You're literally running against the clock, because the
patient can only take so much xrav bombardment be-
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trade-off is how much the CAT scan will show versus
how much radiation the patient will receive. That's
where MIR is so valuable, because the patient is only
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picture form. Like with a tumor, you can see the dis-
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fluids.

"Before this kind of imaging became available, the
margin of error was much greater. We're working with
very invasive procedures. We used to have to fill the
ventricles with contrast medium to see the spaces in the
brain. Now with MIR. that's not necessary anymore.
Early detection is so important; in the old days, our
first clue came when a patient had a major dysfunction,
which was often after the brain damage was already too
advanced. Now with early detection, we can catch these
problems earlier and use less invasive corrective sur-
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picture on the Amiga of what's going on."

These pictures currently take the form of two-dimen-
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Dr. Zhang, a neuroscicntist from mainland China, is
working on Amiga software for a full three-dimensional
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take a "Fantastic Voyage" on an Amiga through a pa-
tient's brain to visualize exactly how dysfunctions are
occurring and how to treat them.

Brain Imaging Computers

Currently, brain imaging for the research project is
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Harper adds, "You have to get used to other big ma-
chine costs as well, like paving $700 for the reference
books or $2,500 for a word processor. You also get a
level of support that is, in a word, poor."

On the particular day we visited, the Brain Imaging
Project was using the MicroVax for the first time to pre-
pare a patient for deep electrode implants. Dr. Harper
said enthusiastically. "During surgery you can't show
rows of numbers. You need to transform the signals
into something that the surgeon can glance up ai so
that he can know immediately the results of what he
has just done. That's best done with colors and shapes.
Right now the trend is towards expensive special-pur-
pose machines, but with the right software, the Amiga
can do the same thing, but at a much lower cost."

The Amiga will eventually replace the costly
MicroVax completely in the UCLA lab, and with the
Amiga's low cost, every resident, graduate student and
neurosurgeon at UCLA can have his or her own Amiga
workstation. The Amiga is a dream come true for Har-
per, who adds, "There are still a couple of bargains left
in (he world. One is a medical school education at
L'CLA; the second is an Amiga. In terms of a very low-
cost workstation, the Amiga really is a phenomenal
bargain!"

Dr. Harper considered the Mac II, but found it was
"an order of magnitude more expensive than the
Amiga." He also considered the $7,000 DEC; basic work-
station, but as associate Dr. Erysingcr noted, "With all
the add-ons we need, who knows what a complete work-
station would cost. That's what is so great about the
Amiga; not only is the CPU cheap, but the peripherals
are reasonably priced as well. You just can't beat the
price of an Amiga."

The only features the Amiga lacks for optimum medi-
cal imaging are a slightly higher resolution, which is
necessary for x-ray images, and an eight-bits-per-pixel
display. Harper finds that the Amiga's six bits per pixel
is adequate in applications like the PET scan, but
thinks that eight bits per pixel would be excellent,
along with a faster coprocessor.

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sors. For example, most of the Mag Res machines with
which Dr. Harper works have Ethernet connections, en-
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the Amiga. These Magnetic Resonance Images are 512
x 512 pixels, so lie will only lose a little of the bottom
of the image in the transfer. And Harper finds, "The
cost of the board [S700] is trivial when you consider
that you can instantly transfer information from a half-
million-dollar scanner into the Amiga." Harper is also
planning to add the Mimetics Frame Buffer, so thai he
can grab images from videotape.

Harper has an arsenal of Amiga programs, with doz-
ens of the latest disks in a huge case by his Amiga 10(10.
Out of this enviable selection, he uses primarily Deluxe-
Paint II, DigiView, an Easyl graphics tablet. | Forth and
the Liquid Light Imprint system, which makes the slides
he takes to conferences. His most important applica-
tions tool, however, is probably J Forth, which he uses
heavily to transfer programs from the Vax PDP 1 1 onto
the Amiga; Harper says, "the file structures are differ-
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work, but it's worth it. The Amiga is blazinglv fast;
some applications run eight times faster on the Amiga
than thev did on the PDP 11. Having a wonderful pro-
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for us."

Another important applications tool is DeluxePaint
II, which he finds "an astounding package. You can in-
stall a non-copy-protected disk on your hard disk. Copy
protection that makes use of code words on different
pages of the manual is too inconvenient. I was disap-
pointed to see it on DigiPaint; that limits its usefulness
to us."

The project also uses DigiView for directly inputting
images into the Amiga; his custom setup uses two EBV-
2 500-watt bulbs as a light source and is switching to a
C-moum 35mm lens. The uneven lighting, however, is
still a problem, so he plans to add some diffttscrs. Dr.
Harper also uses Easyl for cleaning up slides; although
he doesn't have time to filter pictures, he did find a
free edge-detection program and Fourier transform pro-
gram on a public BBS (bulletin board system). With this
software, he can help students clean up pictures by of-
fering advice on edge detection, high frequency or low-
pass filtering.

One of the research project's goals is to create a
brain image in three dimensions. Dr. Harper has not
seen VideoScapc or Sculpt 3D but is very impressed
with Forms in Flight. He says, "For S79, it's ridiculous, I
saw a demo and ran right up and bought it. It's aston-
ishing that these things are being done on micros."

One project researcher is developing Amiga software
for data acquisition of cardiac, lung and brain activity,
which can then be recorded automatically on a hard
disk. Later, the Amiga can process the data to get a
better visualization of what is going on.

With all this software and hardware available. Dr.
Harper is very pleased with the Amiga. He feels that

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need something like a Sun workstation with a Pixar
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Other Amiga R&D Applications

The Brain Imaging Project is also investigating Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome in conjunction with a London
university. The London study took vital sign readings
on 700 infants, 16 of whom later died. The research
team has been analyzing these tapes of the 16 infants
next to some healthy controls on the Vax PDP 1 1, but
it is now in the process of porting the code over to the
Amiga. Harper says, "With the PDP 11 we only have
64K of RAM; with the Amiga we have up to 9 megs, or
16 megs if we go to a 68020 chip. That's . . .heaven.
The PDP 1 1 graphics card cost us almost S2.-KH), plus
$600 for the monitor." The PDP 11 only has 16 colors
in a 512 x 512 pixels display with no blitter chip, and
Harper explains, "The Amiga has virtually the same res
for a fraction of the cost. We can hook several Amigas
to a hard disk and to each other through Ethernet us-
ing the Aineristar board, and boom! . . . away you go.
What's really important is languages, networking and
coprocessor boards. These greatlv enhance the capabili-
ties of the machine."

The UCLA Anatomy Department has also purchased
an Amiga, along with the DigiView program, and is us-
ing it for teaching gross anatomy using digitized slides.
With DeluxePaint II, the professors can alter the bare
slides with shading or circles to point out any areas of
interest, and 3-D packages will show such anatomy ani-
mations as muscle and limb motion. Dr. Harper adds,
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limb moving together or two muscles working in oppo-
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development, the Amiga is a natural with its excellent
color graphics. And at only S750 for each color anima-
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Reviews

Digi-Paint
Prism Plus

Another artistic horizon has
opened up for the Amiga.

By Roger Goode

UNTIL NOW, creating original paintings
and changing digitized pictures has been
limited to working in a maximum of 32
colors. Digi-Paint (from New Tek, the crea-
tors of Digi-View) and Prism Plus (from Im-
pulse) are here to change all that. Both give
you the ability to manipulate ("paint") pic-
tures in the Hold-And-Modify (HAM) mode,
making available a phenomenal 4,096
colors to help you create a more natural
look. The key to having all those colors on-
screen is, briefly, that each of the color pix-
els "borrows" information from its neigh-
boring pixels to create additional colors.
This process prompts the pixels to behave
differently, which will require some getting-
used-to, but for the virtually endless possi-
bilities, it's worth it.

Digi-Paint and Prism Plus are not ordi-
nary paint programs; in fact, the term "pic-
ture editing" more closely describes them.
Both are IFF compatible, so importing pic-
ture files from DeluxePaint, Aegis Images.
Digi-View and other sources is no problem.
Both employ the "color 0" option to sup-
port a genlock. Backup disks can be made
of each, but Digi-Paint uses passu : ord copy-
protection which requires you to enter a
random word from the manual before you
start the program.

Digi-Paint

Digi-Paint comes with the program disk,
which requires at least 512K of memory.
and a well-written, 56-page manual. To the
credit of Digi-Paint, I was able to get right
into program almost without looking at the

manual. The special features I did require
help with are thoroughly covered in
tutorials.

Before entering the program you are
given the option of working in 320 x 200
or 320 x 400 resolution. The opening
screen reveals the simplicity and ease-of-use
built into this program. The basic menu
items are bandied in standard Amiga fash-
ion, with one addition: when you load a
picture, you may choose to use either the
on-screen palette or the palette on file with
the picture. This option is helpful when
combining elements from different pic-
tures. The toolbox, menu bar and the 4,096
color palette are situated in the bottom
quarter of the screen for easy access. The
toolbox will automatically disappear if you
work into the lower portion of the screen,
then reappear once you finish. You can also

reposition it or click it off and on with the
mouse. This all adds up to fast and fluid
use of the program, which really matters
when you're in a creative mood.

The toolbox contains a full compliment
of the basic tools and brushes found in
other paint programs — freehand draw,
straight line, oval, rectangle, etc. — all of
which can be used with the options in the
Mode menu. It's under the Mode menu that
you'll find Digi-Paint's distinguishing char-
acteristics. The functions of many are self-
explanatory, as with Solid, Blend, Tint and
Shading. The more obscure Add, Subtract,
And, Or and Xor do things like lighten the
area affected, create a negative effect or
shift the color affected in one direction or
another. The rule here is experiment! The Ef-
fects menu houses Double Screen Size,
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Artwork created with Digi-Paint's Rubthrough function. (Palette and menu bar at bottom.)

AmigaWorld 63

A function called Soften allows you to shift
and overlay the screen by one pixel either
vertically, horizontally or both, thereby giv-
ing the whole picture a slightly out-of focus
look. Other techniques include Cut and
Paste, for making custom brushes and
Again, which lets you repeat operations in
different combinations for even more var-
ied effects.

You'll discover, with a little experimenta-
tion, some features which are not in docu-
mentation. All the features allow use of
multiple functions concurrently to provide
some great effects. Colorizing, one of the
nicest of these techniques, by itself justifies
the purchase of the program. By using the
Fill, Add, Tint and Shading tools you can
very effectivly turn almost any black-and-
white picture into full color.

I discovered my favorite feature while
playing around. Like DeluxePaint, Digi-
Painl allows you to copy a screen to a spare
screen situated behind the first. Once
you've copied a screen to the spare, the
Rubthrough function becomes available.
With Rubthrough activated you literally rub
away parts of the image on the first screen
to reveal what lies beneath. With a color
picture on the spare screen, I cleared the
first screen to a neutral, light color. Then I
activated Rubthrough and Tint and Fill,
and using a small, round brush I worked
over the screen with small strokes until the
picture underneath was revealed in light,
transparent tones of the original colors.
The effect is amazingly like that of a water-
color painting. By working stroke over
stroke in the same manner, and adding fur-
ther tints with the Rubthrough turned off,
the illusion of watercolor painting is further
enhanced.

I'm very impressed with the power of
Digi-Paint; I found lots of potential for fur-
ther creativity and enjoyment.

Prism Plus

The Prism Plus disk actually holds two pro-
grams — the original Prism! and the updated
Prism Plus. I'll limit this review to the up-
dated Prism Plus, except to mention that
Prism! requires 512K or more of memory
and Prism Plus requires at least one mega-
byte of memorv. The reasons for this, I
gather, are for the optional resolutions you
can choose from (with interlacing and over-
scan) and the ability to use custom screens
larger than the standard Amiga screen,
much like DeluxePaint II. Be warned
though, that the larger screens are ex-
tremely memory intensive (a 1,024 X 1,024
interlaced HAM picture uses 3.6MB).

Prism Plus is not the type of program you
can use without reading the instructions, at
least not if you want to take advantage of
the special features. Right from the start I
had difficulty, much of which I would have
to attribute to the manual (the original
Prism! manual with one page of amended
instructions for Prism Plus). The manual is
24 pages long, only 15 of which arc instruc-
tions; the rest is technical information,
which I commend Impulse for including as
it may be very helpful for some. However,
for the far greater number of Amiga own-
ers who want a graphics tool that is easy
and fun to use, the important part of the
manual is the basic "how to." In this area,
I'm afraid Prism Plus falls short. I found the

Prism Plus' inverse function and toolbox.

explanations of the functions ambiguous
and far too brief. Two pages are devoted to
a listing of keystroke commands, each de-
fined by just a few words.

The Regions menu, which allows you to
Cut, Paste and affect defined areas in differ-
ent manners, is what sets this program
apart from others. Regions is covered
within the Unique Operations section, the
whole of which is just two and a half pages.
While there is an additional section on Re-
gions in the technical section of the man-
ual, overall I found it, as I did the rest of
the manual, to be cryptic and of very little
help.

The basic operational setup is similar to
other paint programs, with a menu bar at
the top and a gadget box down one side.
The tools in the box are familiar,
too — brushes, freehand, straight and curved
lines, hollow and filled shapes, flood-fill
and text, airbrush and a magnifying glass
that allows you to zoom in and out. The
palette requester is large and nicely set up.
There are a few new items not mentioned
in the documentation, and this leads to
more confusion.

The menus hold the special functions, in-
cluding the controls for Regions which give
you the ability to define areas to use as cus-
tom brushes, flip horizontally and vertically,
swap information from the buffer area, cre-
ate a transparent/negative image of an area
lor easier positioning of a brush and more.
For most of these functions, as well as those
of many of the tools in the gadget box,
there are keystroke commands. Personally, I
found them awkward to use; there are so
many that I had to continually refer to the
command iist.

It seems that Prism Plus has great poten-
tial. 1 was, therefore, disappointed to find it
so difficult and ungainly to use. Perhaps if
I'd spent quite a bit more time I'd have got-
ten a handle on it, but I spent roughly the
same amount of time with Digi-Paint and al-
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simplest single-color images; most became
single-color blobs that bore little resem-
blance to the original beyond the outline.
Because of these problems, the ability to in-
clude graphics within a VizaWrite docu-
ment i.s much more limited than I expected.

VizaWrite has all the features considered
standard for word processing programs.
You can change margins, line spacing or
text alignment quickly and easily by using
the mouse to place one or many rulers any-
where on a page. It has the ability to in-
clude headers and footers on a page, but
there is no provision for footnotes. The
Cut, Copy and Paste functions enable you
to move and delete sections of the docu-
ment", you can select words, lines, sentences
or paragraphs using the mouse or keyboard,
but the Select Whole Document feature did
not work on the 1.02 version I used.

One particularly useful feature of Viza-
Write is its ability to perform mail merges.
This means it can print one document

(such as a letter) any number of times, in-
terpolating variables (such as names and ad-
dresses) into predetermined slots with each
printing, thus creating customized versions
of the document. You can use any ASCII
file containing the variable data as long as
it is properly formatted.

Another useful feature, the Glossary, al-
lows you to create a file of graphics and
sections of text that you wish to include in
other documents. You can choose an item
from the glossary and include it anywhere
within a document, where it can then be ed-
ited along with the rest of the contents.

Search-and-Replace allows you to ex-
change a letter, word or phrase with an-
other, once or many times. There is a
serious bug in this option, however, that
caused the system to crash several times.
The only escape was to reboot, which of
course caused loss of the document in
memory, Even when Search-and-Replace
works though, it is slow.

Graphics and multiple rulers in VizaWrite.

On the subject of speed, I should men-
tion that VizaWrite is extremely slow at up-
dating the screen — even more so than
packages such as ProWrite, that use more
bitplanes and hence must move more mem-
ory. Progressive Peripherals's technical sup-
port line attributed this sluggishness to the
Amiga, but since other packages don't have
this problem I cannot accept that as fact.

One feature 1 especially like is the His-
tory box. Along with each document,
VizaWrite stores corresponding informa-
tion, including who created it and when,
and its size. Here you can include a note
about the document. More importantly, it
allows you to password protect your docu-
ments so that only vou can access them.

Printing Puzzles

VizaWrite allows you to print your docu-
ments using proportional spacing or a spec-

ified pitch, Choosing one of these options,
however, cancels its ability to print any
Amiga fonts you may have chosen; to print
the document as it appears on screen you
must choose the screen option.

Don't buy this package thinking that your
printer will work with VizaWrite just be-
cause your printer works with all your other
Amiga programs. The fact that this program
disregards Preferences printer drivers and
instead supplies its own results in a very se-
rious weakness. At this time VizaWrite sup-
ports only seven printers: CBM MPS 1000
and 2000, Diablo 630, EPSON FX-80 and
FX-85, HP Laserjet and Juki 6000.

VizaWrite is unprotected, it multitasks,
and uses a configure file that determines
which default disk and fonts to use, as well
as how much memory to allow per docu-
ment. The default is set at 40K, enough for
about 12 pages, but it may be expanded.

VizaWrite Desktop has a lot of potential.
While it has a good user interface it is ham-
pered by slow screen update, and although
it offers very useful features it also has
some serious bugs. Considering its cost in
comparison to other Amiga word proces-
sors, I just can't recommend it. If it's graph-
ics and multiple fonts you require,
ProWrite is more effective. If you need mail
merge or want to work on large documents,
WordPerfect, while more expensive, is a far
belter choice.

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Fabricate fabulous fonts to
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By Chris Dickman

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but does it well. Designed specifically to
create fouls in up lo 16 colors, it will ap-
peal to those using Amigas professionally
for video production or design work. In a
nutshell, Calligrapher provides a neatly
linked series of editing tools to create and
modify fonts, from the standard two-color

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variety up lo a 16-color genre dubbed
ColorFonts by the program's creator, Inter/
Active Softworks. Commodore's acceptance
of ColorFonts as a font standard, coupled
with Inter/Active's artist support program,
should result in a proliferation of fonts in
this formal.

Calligrapher occupies almost every nook
and cranny of its disk, so much so that the
C directory has been almost completely gut-
ted. As goes disk space, so goes memory.
Calligrapher requires at least 51 2K, but
you'll need one megabyte to create multi-
color fonts of reasonable size. Memory is in
such short supply on a 51 2K system that
Calligrapher lets you monitor available
memory and close the Workbench if neces-
sary, saving about 35K. This puts the kibosh
on multitasking, however, so a multi-mega-
byte system is clearlv in order.

Creating fonts with Calligrapher involves
moving back and forth between the pro-
gram's six screens. You begin with the Font
screen, by either loading part or all of an
existing font to be modified or creating one
from scratch. Setting the size, number of
colors and range of ASCII characters to use
in the font is a painless process of clicking
on the boxes displaying the default or exist-
ing values at the bottom of the screen (keep
in mind that increasing the size of any of
these parameters will eat up more RAM).

As an example of the attention to detail
that's gone into Calligrapher, placing the
pointer on the value in the height box,
clicking and moving the mouse upward
raises the height value and the opposite
lowers it. Using the left button scrolls these
values slowly, the right one does it quickly.
Little touches like this are scattered
throughout the program and make it a
pleasure to use. The Amiga keys are not
employed and the use of icons is refresh-
ingly restrained, with the program relying
instead on the intelligent use of function
keys, menus and gadgets.

All Characters, Line up Here!

The Font screen is the only one which pro-
vides a viewing capability for groups of
characters. A popup window enables you to
type a line of text and view it in four screen
resolutions, including interlaced. Text en-
tered on the screen can also be sent to
video tape with the aid of a genlock. You
can perform a wide range of operations on
groups of characters, including converting a
group to a single brush and copying it into
a single character of a font, or saving it to
disk. This is handy for creating and modify-
ing logos and titles, since you can apply the

special effects normally used with individual
characters to the entire word at once.

The place to start modifving the font is
with the Edit screen, working on one char-
acter at a time. The process will be familiar
to DeluxePaint users, since the screen is
basically a subset of that popular paint pro-
gram — similar brush, line, box, fill and mag-
nify tools are present, as well as a pop-up
palette. Even the keyboard shortcut com-
mands mimic those of DeluxePaint. This
consistency between programs is
commendable.

Beyond the paint tools, the Edit screen
provides a few ingenious ways to work with
characters. Each one is displayed sur-
rounded by lines that end on the edges of
the screen in small triangles. Clicking and
dragging these triangles moves the lines,

Calligrapher's style screen,

which correspond to the baseline, spacing,
kerning and width of each character. A dec-
imal value for each of these attributes
changes along with the lines, for accurate
positioning.

Great Effects

Playing with patterns on the Effects screen
is fun. A pattern can be created from any
IFF brush drawn with an Amiga paint pro-
gram and range in complexity from a few-
pixels to an image 160 x 256 wide. Once
loaded, the pattern is displayed and can be
modified in a number of ways, including
color, alignment and style. To make use of a
pattern, it's over to the Style screen.

Style is a busy screen that's used not only
to transform characters by adding outlines,
.shadows and patterns, but also to convert
standard two-color fonts to ColorFonts. A
style is composed from up to 16 stacked lay-
ers. You can define the color, placement,
size or pattern of each layer separately and
save the resulting style definition or attach
it to any font. During the creation of a

style, what's displayed on the screen is not
the actual characters of the font but a ge-
neric letter 'A' in two adjacent windows.
The left represents the current layer, the
right the character with all the layers dis-
played. Changes made to the current layer
are faithfully displayed on the right.

Moving each layer is as simple as clicking
and dragging the 'A' representing the cur-
rent layer. You can also apply any colors
from the current palette to any layer and
change the palette as desired. A list of pat-
terns loaded from the Pattern screen is dis-
played at the bottom and can be applied as
required, one for each layer. The tempta-
tion is overwhelming at first to create and
load multiple patterns and create multi-lay-
ered fonts. This produces some wild results
but, reality, in the form of an insufficient
memory warning, soon rears its ugly head.

To see how the actual font will look, it's
off to the Select menu, to view the effects of
your tinkering on one character or the
whole font. Making these changes perma-
nent is another memory-hungry operation.

Space doesn't permit examining all of the
many tools Calligrapher provides for color
font creation. The program provides so
many features that it takes careful reading
of the well-written manual and quite a bit
of practice before some of the more intri-
cate procedures become second nature. For
example, it takes literally dozens of steps to
transfer characters from one font to an-
other. But if you rely on the Amiga for your
livelihood in the field of video or graphic
design, Calligrapher will quickly become es-
sential equipment.

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Forms In Flight

Take off in 3-D.
By Louis R. Wallace

WHILE 1986 WAS the year of paint and an-
imation, 1987 is the year of 3-D. Forms In
Flight by Micro Magic is a drawing program
that allows you to create three-dimensional
objects by drawing them or inputing the co-

68 January 1988

ordinate's directly. It supports hidden line
removal and solid shading of the objects as
well as simple wire frame models.

Forms In Flight requires at least one mega-
byte of memory, but even more Is recom-
mended. A one-meg system can display up
to 600 four-sided surfaces. Since each addi-
tional megabyte adds about 1,700 addi-
tional surfaces, a fully expanded Amiga can
generate highly detailed objects. A hard
drive is recommended, but not required,

With pull-down menus you define, create
and control your objects. You can use either
the 640 x 200 or 640 x 400 screen (in two,
four, eight or 16 colors) to create vour im-
ages, but once you have recorded a se-
quence of views, any resolution screen can
be used for playback. The 3-D image will be
maintained in the proper proportions re-
gardless of the playback, resolution. The ani-
mation sequences are designed to be
recorded using a video frame recorder, but
Micro Magic has just released a special
player program called Fast Flight (included
in the Forms In Flight package) that, using
the Amiga's RAM memory and very effi-
cient compression algorithms, allows you to
>la\ back the animations in real time.

Beginning with Basics

You design objects by building them from a
basic structure, the polygon. You have three
types of polygons to choose from: freehand,
regular and spline. These can be drawn di-
rectly in 3-D, but more control can be had
by first creating it in a 2D plane, then ex-
panding it into three dimensions. For exam-
ple, if you create a 2-D six-sided circular
polygon, then extend it into the third di-
mension through a given number of steps,
vou have created a 3-D six-sided cylinder.
This is faster than actually drawing the en-
tire 3-D object, and is more precise for sym-
metrical objects (hall vou ma\ be able lo
generate by hand. Forms In Flight can then
remove those lines that would be hidden if
the object was solid, a process called hidden
line removal. The program also allows solid
shading of the objects (using a variable light
source), and the final result can be stored
away to disk as a library object.

Simple objects stored in libraries can be
combined into complex objects which can
in turn be used to generate even more com-
plex images. Objects can be manipulated,
using techniques such as copy, mirror image
and rotation. These manipulations can be
performed on the whole object or selected
sections of the object.

Rotation is handled in several ways. You
can move the observer by a simple rotation,

or by more complex action such as rolling
or panning. Rotation causes the observer's
"eye" to move around the object in space,
giving you a different point of view, but
you remain looking toward the same point
(look point). Panning means both the ob-
server's eye and the look point change.
Rolling means the observer's head moves,
giving a new look point but still using the
same 3-D view. And you can zoom in to-
wards or pull away from the object, chang-
ing its relative si/e on the screen.

Now, Move It!

Animation is accomplished by defining how-
each object is to move in a given sequence

during a defined number of frames. When
animating complex scenes using more than
one object, each can have its own anima-

A wire frame face from Forms In Flight.

tion control and move independently of the
others. If you want an object to rotate, se-
lect it. Then using menus, set the direction
of rotation, the number of frames and the
number of degrees to rotate in these
frames. Once a frame block (the number of
frames in an animation sequence) has been
defined, the next frame block can be deter-
mined. When you have finished defining
the animation sequence, it can be made to
occur on the screen. Depending on the
complexity of your objects, this can take a
few minutes or many hours. If it is going to
lake a long time you can have it save the
frames to disk, where they can be replayed
for recording on Film or just viewing to see
the effects.

While Forms In Flight does not support
screen dumps to dot matrix printers, it does
support plotting on HPGL or compatible
plotters. These have an output resolution of
10,240 x 6,400 dots, allowing a very precise
and detailed drawing of your objects. Un-
fortunately, most users don't have such a
plotter, but most of them do have printers,

so a dot matrix screen dump (while quite a
bit cruder) would still have been a desirable
option.

As mentioned, Forms In Flight is con-
trolled via the mouse and Intuition menus.
These make it significantly easier to use
than a program that would use the CLI
style approach (as many MS-DOS packages
do). But three-dimensional graphics are
quite complex, and even given the ease of
use of the Amiga's interface, it remains a
challenging task, requiring a strong back-
ground in 3-D geometry to really create
anything. It also requires you to have a firm
vision of what is being created. This in-
cludes both the objects' shape and form
and, in the case of an animation sequence,
what you want the results to be. These are
talents usually found in artists and anima-
tors, so I think the best results will be had
by users with both a technical and artistic
slant.

fhe documentation is fairly extensive,
and at first glance it might seem a little bit
obscure. But with a little practice, using the
supplied tutorial in the manual, you can
quickly get the hang of creating simple ob-
jects. More complex images will require
quite a bit of reading, patience and more
than a little practice. All in all the manual
and menus are adequate, but they're not ex-
ceptionally well done.

There are a couple of features I would
have liked added to the package. For one, I
would like to have the ability to save the
screens in an IFF format, so they could be
used in other Amiga programs. While this
could be done using a background task like
Grabbit (Discovery Software), a simple
menu option would have been better. I
would also have liked to have the ability to
load IFF screens to be used as backdrops
for the animations, an ability offered in al-
most all other animation packages, 2-D or
3-D. This is especially important if you are
recording the animation on film. And while
I thought the menus were functional, they
were not exceptional in any way. More cre-
ative gadgets and a better use of color in
the menus would have made them some-
what easier to use and somewhat more
pleasing lo the eye.

With those minor complaints aside, I like
Forms In Flight. 1 have done a fair amount
of three-dimensional graphics programming
and can appreciate the work that went into
this package. It is quite fast in its hidden
line removal, and the solids modeling capa-
bility allows it to be used for a variety of
personal and professional tasks. I am hav-
ing a lot of fun using it, and if you are in-

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Put to the Test . . .
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and removing my external drive to free up
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AinigaDOS since there was no file called
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son from Amigo then instructed me to run
die configuration program by typing kick-
work. maker. Once this program finished. I
turned my computer off, waited a few sec-
onds, and booted flawlessly to AmigaDOS
with just that one disk. I bid adieu to
Amigo Business Computers.

1 next checked the s directory of the
KickWork disk and examined the old start-
up-sequence file. I figured thai the memon
problem 1 first encountered was the result
of this file spawning too many CLIs. I also
found a file called Startup-Real. When I re-
named this Startup-sequence and rebooted.
Ilic system booted straight to Workbench.
The old startup-sequence renamed this file
Startup-sequence as part of the automatic
configuration process. Since I didn't have
the memory to run the automatic process, I
used the CLI to rename the file.

From then on, my KickWork disk worked
evcrytime I used it. I had no trouble run-
ning other programs such as WordPerfect,
Mean 18 and Earl Weaver Baseball when I
booted with KickWork. I also didn't have to
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disk back into a Kickstart disk after boot-
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Kickstart takes up a lot of room — your
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The KickWork disk eliminates the Memos
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Karate Kid Part II

SPAWNED BY the movie of the same name.
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of King Shohashi. To get there, Danicl-san
must get past opponents of increasing skill,
until he faces the challenge of the drum.
(Jetting there is a very large portion of
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yet to sticceed in reaching.

The game's graphics are splendid. Each

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screen shows a different Oriental selling.
Similarly, the animation is extremely well
done, with the kickce sprawling in various,
realistic ways. Sounds (the customary grunt-
ing and a couple karate yells) are unspectac-
ular. Most impressive is the Oriental feel of
the graphics, as the artwork is detailed and
highly attractive.

The problem with the game is its arcade
emphasis. There is simply not enough vari-
ety in Daniel's activities to make the seem-
ingly endless succession of screens
interesting. After a while the whole thing
grows tedious, especially as the opponents
become almost unbeatable. Furthermore,
there is no Save feature. No matter how far
you get, one loss sends you back to start
from scratch. Classic arcade programming,
yes, but I wish the adventuring aspects had
been emphasized.

Karate Kid II is challenging and, at least
for a while, entertaining. If you like arcade
lighting games you'll be pleased. As it
stands, though, I can recommend it only
half-heartedly. The graphics and animation
alone, even with the well-executed karate
simulation, are not enough to sustain inter-
est. ($39.95, MkhTron, 576 Telegraph, Pontiac,
MI 48053, 3 13/334-5700. Joystick and 51 2K
required.)

—Neil Randall

The Guild of Thieves

YOU JUST CAN'T steal good help these
days. We arc back in Kerovnia, and the
Guild of Discreet Entry and Removal Oper-
atives, otherwise known as the Guild of
Thieves, is looking for a few good crooks.
The quality of new members has slipped in
recent years so the Guild developed a series
of tests for apprentice thieves. Thev then
revised the test when it turned out that no
one could live through it. The new and im-
proved version involves (what else) thieving,
snooping, cheating, skulking and, most im-
portant, surviving the test.

It isn't easy surviving in Kerovnia espe-
cially when you are expected to ransack a
well-guarded mansion, rob graves, fish with-
out a license, cheat, lie and generally be-
have like a scoundrel. There are dozens of
obstacles ahead for the would-be cut-
purse — ravenous rats, caged bears, booby-
trapped beds, garrulous guards and on and
on. If you do manage to slink your way
through the various tasks then perhaps you
will be admitted to the Guild.

Guild of Thieves is a high-quality illus-
trated text adventure. The graphics are very
good. The parser is very sophisticated. Pull-

down menus let yon change text size, save
and load games, print your sessions, turn
the Amiga's speech on and off and more.
Guild of Thieves lets you program the func-
tion keys to type often repeated actions.
There is a mini editor for changing your
commands if you make typing mistakes.
Guild of Thieves (like The Pawn, also from
Firebird) has just about every feature you
can think of in a text adventure game.

The game itself is difficult, enjoyable,
complicated, rich, humorous and challeng-
ing. It is one of the least "restrictive" text
adventure games giving you the feeling that

A nice place to break and enter.

you can wander around at will, and that just
because you get stuck on one puzzle doesn't
mean you have to quit the game. There are
clues in the game if you do get stuck; find
the general problem in the list of clues
printed in the manual, type in a string of
gibberish, and the translation is primed to
the screen. This is a good system because it
prevents you from "accidently" reading the
clues, and the strings vou tvpe in are so
cumbersome to enter thai vou tend to
not ask for help unless you are really
stuck.

Guild of Thieves is not the perfect lext
adventure but it comes close. The story and
setting are well done, the puzzles are chal-
lenging, the graphics are good, there arc
many extra features that aid in play and the
program is very polished and professional.
If you liked The Pawn, you will like Guild
of Thieves. If you like text adventures, you
will like Guild of Thieves. If you like puz-
zles, fantasy and humor, you will like Guild
of Thieves. Unless you hate typing you will
probably like Guild of Thieves, so why not
go out and steal a copy todav. (If you're
good enough, thai is.) (S44.95. Firebird Licen-
sees, 71 Franklin Tpke., Wnldxvick, Ay, 201/444-
5701). Mo special requirements.)

—G. Wright

78 January 1988

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Character Generator

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shadows, 3-D, strobe

adjust light depth and location

italics, bold and underline

easy-to-use menus

select shadows, colors, lighting

choose palettes and colors

Developed by

Zuma Group

SAVE 550,000! TV* TEXT brings
capabilities of the most expensive
character-generators to you and your
Commodore- Amiga personal computer.
Pocket all that money while you create
professional quality lettering for presenta-
tion graphics, or live video production
with Genlock. TV* TEXT supports the
mouse, medium/high/overscan screen
resolutions, the full Amiga palette of 4096
colors, all IFF images, and NTSC/PAL
video standards.

You can use any Amiga fonts, such as
Zuma Fonts, workbench fonts, etc. Spac-
ing can be adjusted and characters can be
stretched, squeezed or even rotated! Text
can be positioned with left/right justifica-
tion or centering.

Make titles exciting with rendering at-
tributes such as italics, bold, underline,
outline, edge, extrude (3D), cast /drop
shadows and strobes. Create attractive
backgrounds using wallpaper or tile pat-
terns. Then captivate your audience with
special effects made by applying those at-
tributes to lines, boxes, circles and
ellipses.

If you want to make your picture look
special, try TV*TEXT!

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$99

95

Other products by Zuma Group:

Zuma Fonts Vol. 1, 2, 3 - $34.95 each
TV*SHOW - $99-95

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What's New?

Our suitcases practically burst bringing back all the new
goodies we found at AmiExpo.

Compiled by Linda Barrett and Barbara Gefvert

A Real Sin

"Desktop video is fine," the
skeptics say, "but can you
broadcast it?" Mimetics is loudly
answering "Yes" with their
ReaSyn frame buffer board and
FrameCapture board. Conform-
ing to NTSC RS-170A specifica-
tions, ReaSyn stores over two
million colors in a broadcast
quality image with 640 x 480
x 8 bits per color per pixel res-
olution. Stored files are compat-
ible with IFF, hi- and lores
HAM, interlaced and noninter-
laced files. Since it contains a
megabyte of 120-nanosecond dy-
namic memory, the frame
buffer board doubles as a one-
meg RAM disk. The Frame-
Capture board lets you trap sin-
gle-frame images in real-time
from a camera, a video or tele-
vision for use with any of the
animation programs available.
ReaSyn is priced at S699.95,
while FrameCapture is only
$199.95. For more information,
contact Mimetics Corp., PC) Box
60238 Station A, Palo Alto, CA
94306, 408/741-0117.

SHAZAM!

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's
ComicSetter! Create your own
superhero adventures with clip
art, word balloons, comic fonts
and 16 colors. Gold Disk Inc.
will surrender a copy for
S99.95. Swoop in or call them:
PO Box 789, Streetsville, Missis-
sauga, Ontario, Canada L5M
2C2, 416/828-0913.

Busy Hands Make Many Products

The folks at Progressive Periph-
erals & Software have been
dreaming up lots of ways to
make vour life easier!

Complete with its extensive
programming language, Super-
base Professional is here. In-
cluded are the Text Editor,
which offers features needed for
most word processing tasks, and
the Forms Editor, which allows
you to design multi-page forms
with lines, boxes, color and text.
The program costs S299.95, but
if you own Superbase Personal,
the upgrade will be only $125.

Progressive is implementing
the Official Superbase Informa-
tion Network (OSIN), a 16-line.

24-hour bulletin board system
for user technical support. A
pro-forum area will be provided
for registered applications
developers.

PIXtnate is an image proces-
sing and special effects package.
It performs 3,000 special effects,
supports all Amiga graphics
modes (including HAM, over-
scan and HALFBRITE 64-color
mode) and can convert images
from one format to another. For
S69.95 you can enhance images
and accelerate your graphics
processing speed.

You get three points if you
guessed that IntroCAD is an in-
troductory CAD system. Besides

offering standard professional
CAD features, the program adds
quad-densitv multilevel zoom
and laser-like output. IntroCAD
supports many printers and
plotters, and is priced at $69.95.

The new compact external
drive for all Amiga models.
ProDrive. features a spring-
loaded door to protect it from
dust. With its 27-inch power ca-
ble, ProDrive costs S239.95.

Write to Progressive Peripher-
als and Software Inc. at 464 Ka-
lamath Street. Denver, CO
80204. For information on the
BBS you can call 303/9629-
OSIN; for other questions dial
303/825-4144.

Stick to the Script

A script-based sequencing pro-
gram, The Director lets you
combine IFF image files,
ShowAnim files, page flipping
(of full or partial screens),
sound and special effects into a
professional-quality animation.
Enhancements include Fade,
Dissolve. Blit, Wipe, Stencil
Move. Draw, Circle, Ellipse, Rec-
tangle and Fill. If your presenta-
tion still isn't fancy enough, you
can add color cycling or text in
multiple fonts. All graphics
modes, including HAM and
overscan, are supported. The
Projector program lets you play-
back your creations.

On the script writing side,
The Director offers double buff-
ering, integer numeric variables,
a configurable array, arithmetic

expressions, string handling and
a random number generator.
You control the path of the
script with BASIC-like com-
mands, such as For/Next, Gosub/
Return, Goto and If/Else/F.ndif.

The Director is not copy pro-
tected and sells for S69.95, Di-
rect your questions to The
Right Answers Group, Depart-
ment E, Box 3699. Torrance, CA
90510.213/325-1311. ►-

A frame from Contact,
created with The Director
for PBS.

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Now you can produce your
own animated presentations on
the Commodore-Amiga or video
tape. Use any IFF pictures and
over 50 exciting transitions in-
cluding rolls, reveals, wipes,
flys, fades, color cycling and
more. Each picture can remain
on screen for a preset time or
until a keyboard entry is made.
Now really get fancy. Fly or
wipe object brushes onto the
screen. Experiment all you want
— you can play any portion of
your script at anytime during
your editing session! Incredibly
easy. Lights, camera, ACTION!

SHOWCASE YOUR
COMPUTER PICTURES WITH

TV* SHOW

FULL COMPATIBILITY FOR FULL FLEXIBILITY

• TV* SHOW is compatible with Amiga 500, 1000,
and 2000 models (1 MB recommended)

• All IFF graphic formats including HAM

• Overscan screen sizes of over 700x480 pixels

• NTSC/PAL video standards

• Genlock for video production

Developed by

Incredibly priced at:

$99

95

Zuma Group

Other products by Zuma Group:

Zuma Fonts Vol. 1, 2, 3 - S34.95 each

TV*TEXT - S99-95

Amiga Is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. TV-SHOW, TV-TEXT and Zuma Fonls are trademarks of Zuma Gmup, inc.

See your local dealer or call;

Brown-Wagh
Publishing

1-800-451-0900

\-40S-59S-mS(w California)
16795 Lark Ave., Suite 210, Los Gatos, CA 95030

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Kills Bugs Fast

Featuring the Manx Aztec SDB.
Aztec C68k Version 3.6 is the
Amiga's first C-level system with
a source-level debugger. The de-
veloper system includes all stan-
dard debugger features, plus
reusable command macros and
procedures, active frame con-
text switching (to examine vari-
ables from any active function)
and back tracing. For conve-
nience, the program makes use
of windows, and tracing can

be accomplished by line or
function.

The developer system is
priced at $299; if you prefer
only the standard features, the
professional system is available
for $199. The source-level de-
bugger alone is S75, and the li-
brary source is sold for $300.
Manx Software Systems is
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Toss Your Templates

"There must be an easier way to
create schematics and PC
boards." moan vour designers.
They're right— PRO-NET and
PRO-BOARD from Prolific Inc.
The menu-driven pair offer a
complete set of schematic com-
mands, automatic page refer-
ence generation and insertion
through post processing, flexi-
bility in drawing connectors
and weight assignment to assure
important signals receive high
priority in PC board routing.
PRO -NF.T, the schematic cap-
ture CAD system, includes li-
braries, library editor, zoom,
bus bundle and signal name
stepping, repeat, signal naming
and stepping, orthogonal rub-
ber banding, variable template
and paper sizes, gate swapping,

negative logic and more. The
program will even generate a
net list, bill of materials, compo-
nent map and error report.

PRO-BOARD then takes the
net list and generates up to a
four-layer printed circuit board
with Silk Screen. When a via is
added, PRO-BOARD automati-
cally Hips lavers. If you need
help routing traces but aren't
sure which layer to select, toggle
on the automatic layer selec-
tion. The package supports both
dot and laser primers as well as
plotters, Gerber output and .025
grid. The cost for each program
is S475. For a complete list of
features contact Prolific, Inc.,
1808 W. Southgate Avenue,
Fullerton, CA 92633, 714/447-
8792. ►

A schematic from PRO-BOARD,

Sljanuary 198S

Ode 171 on Reader Service card

Softwood

WRITE & FILE

Integrated Word Processor/ Database Manager

Multiple Font Styles, Spell Checker and Powerful Features
make Write & File a SUPER Word Processor. The Integrate^

for Reports and Mail Merge MakeJ

► Features unique "Smart Mouse" and "Undo

► Search/replace; headers, footers; hor/vi

► Prints in graphics (pretty) or text (fast ;

► Includes over 100,000 worddictit

► Supports foreign letters, paper size,
currencies

Views multiple database records at a glance
Manages data in rows/columns like a spreadsheet
Sorts and searches on multiple criteria
Calculates fields using math formulas
Merges lists with documents for labels/envelopes

The First to Provide a DOCUMENT READABILITY INDEX!

See your local dealer or call:

Brown-Wagh
Publishing

1-800-451-0900

1-408-395-3838 «„ California)
16795 Lark Ave., Suite 210, Los Gatos, CA 95030

Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Write & File is a trademark of Softwood Company.

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8 megabytes for the Amiga 1 .

ASDG designs and builds in quality from the start. Out
8 meg board comes with 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 meg installed. Of
course it's no-wait-state memory, of course it's fully
auto-configuring, and comes in your choice of the Amiga
1000 or Amiga 2000 form factor, "ibu wouldn't expect less
from ASDG.

We back up our quality with a full 18 month warranty.
With memory boards from Vi meg to 8 meg ASDG gives
you more choices for memory expansion. For more
information contact ASDG at
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PERFORMANCE

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ASDG inc.
(201)540-9670

Floppy Disk Accelerator for all
Amigas. To produce Face, ASDG
borrowed techniques used to increase disk
performance from the minicomputer and main-
frame world. Face can make your floppy disk per-
form more than ten times faster. Face works best
with external expansion memory.
Face must truly be seen to be
believed. So ask your Amiga dealer
for a demonstration. $34.95

PERFORMANCE

Get Blown Away

Hurricane, an accelerator board
containing both a Motorola
68020 microprocessor and a
68881 math coprocessor, is de-
signed to replace the Amiga's
68000 mircoprocessor. Using .'52-
bit RAM, Hurricane doubles (he
execution speed of 16-bit while
retaining full software compati-
bility. Also available is a mem-
ory board with up to two

megabytes of 32-bit RAM that
you can attach directly to Hurri-
cane. Both Hurricane (S950
with processors; $495 with sock-
ets for processors) and the con-
nector board ($900 including
two meg; $495 unpopulaied) are
distributed by Finally Technolo-
gies, 25 Van Ness, Suite 550,
San Francisco, CA 94102, 115/
564-5903.

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The Hurricane board with 68020 and 6B8B1 chips.

Barnstormers Beware The CM' Switch-a-roo

The most dangerous airborne
racer of 1932, the GeeBee, is ai
your command in Activision's
new arcade-style racing game,
GeeBee Air Rally. You must flv
over, under and around the
competition, without cutting too
close and colliding in mid-air.
GeeBee Air Rally offers over
250 levels of difficulty through
a progression of 16 race
courses, each with different 3-D
scrolling graphics. Adept pilots
can test their control on the two
slalom and two balloon breaker
courses. You can buy your wings
for S39.95, Radio in to Aclivi-
sion at PO Box 7286, Mountain
View, CA 94039, 415/960-0410.

If you've ever wanted to share
objects between Sculpt 3D and
VideoScape 3D, your wish has
JUSI been answered. Inter-
change enables you to edit and
transfer color and texture infor-
mation as well as script files
from one format to the other.
The core of Interchange, the
master program, works together
with separate multitasking mod-
ules for each graphics program.
The package, including the mas-
ter program and the Sculpt 3D
and VideoScape 3D modules i->
sold for $49.95. Syndesis prom-
ises modules for other 3-D pro-
grams will follow. Call or write
for more information: 20 West
Street, Wilmington. MA 01887.
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Accessories

Ece 500 Amiga $49

A500 Centronic Cables $17

A-B Data Switch $55

A/B CD Switch Box S7B

Epyx Joystick $18

Gender Changer $2Q

Jitter Flicker $14

Midi Cable $1B

Modem Cable $17

Mouse Pad $10

Polaroid 3 5 DS/DD Disks $21

Printer Cable $17

R.F Modulator $45

VB.'C/D Switch Box $7B

Tac-3 Joystick $18

Teakwood 120 Cap $35

Teakwood 64 Cap $28

Teakwood 60 wr Lock $31

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Genlock to the Rescue

While it doesn't wear a cape
emblazoned with an S. the Su-
per Gen could swoop in and
save your video production. At
least, that's what Progressive lin-
age Technology hopes. The Su-
per Gen sports two NTSC RS
170A outputs, BXC connectors,
a Loop Through input, with
switchable termination; a Loop
Through output and 3.58 Mhz

Notch Filter. The Input Clap,
Setup Adder and Key Out Sig-
nal (TTL or Ivpp.) arc all
switchable. You can also pro-
gram the Vertical Start Position
and Field Start. As for Dissolves,
you can use the external Video
Dissolve slider, the Amiga
Graphics Dissolve slider, the
switchable Auto Interpret color
table dissolves or the Program

Control dissolves with one six-
bit DAC for each slider provid-
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Blanking Source is also selecta-
ble. Interested videophiles with
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A Pal Named Max

MAX— The Hard Disk System
Hackers Package is a construc-
tion project that lets the techni-
cally inclined add up to four
hard disks to an Amiga 1000 or
500. You can configure the sys-
tem for up to two MFM or RLL
type IBM-compatible controller
boards, each with multiple
drives (four drive maximum)
that can have one or more par-
titions. Connecting to, or pass-
ing, the expansion bus, the

system uses the Mount com-
mand for increased control of
disk parameters and a CMOS
interface for low bus loading.
On the 1000, it even lets you
use version 1.1 software. On the
2000, MAX will set up a control-
ler and drives to use on the
IBM side.

The construction project
won't void vour warranty, no in-
ternal modifications of the ma-
chine are required. MAX

includes a driver, configurator,
a hard-disk formatter and exer-
ciser with sector level data ma-
nipulation, interface schematics,
assembly and installation in-
structions, a list of component
vendors and Electronic Hori-
zons' full and incremental
backup and restore utlity. Quite
a bargain for S199. For more
specifics, contact Palomax Inc..
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Animated Ideas

You've got great eight-color IFF'
pictures from paint, image-cap-
ture and text-generation pro-
grams, but they just sit there.
Animate and propel them into
3-D with Video Effects 3D from
InnoVision Technology. You
may animate as many as 99 ob-
jects simultaneously, controlling
the 3-D path, rotation, spin, size
and speed of each. You can ex-
trude two-dimensional objects
into 3-D for further manipula-
tion. Object rotation moves at
30 frames per second. The bor-
derless screen has a resolution
of 704 x 452 pixels. To check
your animation before record-
ing to videotape. Video Effects
3D will play back what is still in
memory at 60 frames per sec-
ond. Video Effects 3D sells for
$24'.); for details contact Inno-
Vision Technology, PO Box 743,
Hayward. CA 94543. 415/538-
8355. ■

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January 16-18, 1988

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S6January 1988

Fast Times with
Benchmark Modula-2

Benchmark offers ;i programming environment so easy-to-
use, so comprehensive, so failsafe, and so fast you can't wait
for your next session at the computer. No more wasting time
wondering is it the compiler or your code. Benchmark
creates a hassle-free environment which allows you 10
concentrate your energy on programming, instead of fighting
the compiler. Leon I'renkel. the developer of Benchmark,
debugged the product so you don't have to.

Benchmark delivers:

Fast Compile Speeds: Compiles average 10,000 lines per
minute with hurst speeds of 30,000 lines per minute to give
you phenomenal boosts in productivity.

Reliability: If your code doesn't compile, you don't have to
be concerned about (he compiler. In addition. Benchmark's
environment makes it extremely easy to edit your
corrections and then proceed to recompile.

Convenience: All major activities can be executed from the
EMACS style Editor with function keys. With Benchmark ii is
literally:

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>■ F4 for Kun

Optimized Code: Resultant program size and speed
optimized to be similar to programs written under Aztec 'C

Full Documentation: Benchmark's 700 page manual
includes examples of every procedure, in addition to the
quick reference available on menus.

Source Code Demos: Most programmers learn by example.
Over 100 demo programs included which can be
incorporated in your own programs.

Expandability: Benchmark offers three add-on libraries
of highly useful functions and routines.

*- Benchmark 'C Language Standard Library:
Includes functions to help easily move programs
written in 'C into Benchmark's state-of-the-
art programming environment. Offers the
capability to include advanced 'C lan-
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such as: printf, fprintf, scanf, fscanf,
fopen, fdose, (seek, open, close, create
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*• Benchmark Simplified Amiga
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To learn more about Benchmark contact
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animation handling, and many others.

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Benchmark Modula-2: Software Construction Set comes

With:

►- Amiga hardware/software support libraries including:
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*■ Standard Modula-2 libraries including: FileSystem. InOut.
Storage, Terminal, Mathl.ib8, etc.

► Over 100 demonstration programs, complete with source
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March/April 1987— The Amiga 2000. Capturing Amiga graphics
on paper. Creating custom color palettes. A look at 1.2 Work-
bench improvemments.

January/February 1987— Desktop video. Digital sound samplers.
Hardware Buyer's Guide. Creating menus with Intuition.
November/December 1986— Software Buyer's Guide. Going on-
line with the Amiga. A look at color printers. Amiga Basic
graphics primer.

September/October 1986 — Animation techniques on the Amiga.
Using libraries from Amiga Basic. File management advice.

Jul/Aug 1986— Music and Sound

Designing Amiga's sound, sound and music synthesis, profes-
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Premier 1985— The Future is Here

First look at the Amiga computer. A peek at the 68000 chip,
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Read them, and thou shall become as smart as he.

By Louis R. Wallace

512 Too Much

Q I have an Amiga 500 with the
A501 512K expansion installed and
have come across a few pieces of soft-
ware that will not run correctly with
the extra memory. I can get around
the problem somewhat by using the
Workbench XoFastRam tool and
then the CLI, but this can sometimes
be a problem in itself.

It seems the ideal way would be to
insert the NoFastMem program into
the Startup-sequence of the software.
However, it does not have any re-
turn cude (once called from the CLI
the cursor doesn 't come back unless I
reboot or use CTRL-C). How do I
me NoFaslRam from the Startup-se-
quence and still have control of my
Amiga?

E. Secretan

Miami, FL

A: The answer is one of the
Amiga's special features — multi-
tasking, just use the AmigaDOS
command RUN from your Start-
up-scquencc to activate the No-
FastRani program. It vvill create
its own task, leaving the Startup-
sequence to continue as before.
I suggest vou make up a sepa-
rate Workbench disk with RL'N
SYSTEM/NOFASTRAM inserted
in the Startup-sequence, and use
it when you need to run pro-
grams thai can't handle more
than 512K.

Out the Mouse

Qj Where can I find information
about using the Amiga 500's mouse
ports to control a device connected to
them? I need to send information out
these ports. Also, can you tell me

how to use Hold-and-Modify mode
from Amiga Basic or refer me to a
book with this information?

V. Dayal

Hoboken, NJ

A: You are going to need The
Amiga Hardware Reference Manual
which documents everything
about the Amiga's hardware. I
also suggest you get The Amiga
ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Li-
braries and Devices, Both are
available from the Addison-U'cv
ley Publishing Company.

As for using Hold-and-Modify
(the HAM 4,096-color mode)
from Amiga Basic, mv first im-
pulse is to say you can't. How-
ever, since Amiga Basic allows
SO much access to Intuition and
the ROM kernel routines via its
LIBRARY statements, I won't
say it is impossible. But. I'll bet
that it would require you to em-
ulate C structures and functions
so much in the Basic program
thai it would be easier to just
write it in C in the first place.
For more information on the
HAM mode, see the ROM ker-
nel manual, as well as The Amiga
Intuition Reference Manual, also
from Addison-Weslcy. And if
you need a good book on be-
ginning C programming on the
Amiga, I recommend Inside the
Amiga by John Berry and avail-
able from Howard W. Sams &
Company ($22.95).

Book Learning

Q: Since I have little opportunity to
mingle with other Amiga users,
everything I horn is from reading
and experimenting. I bought two

books on AmigaDOS published by
Compute! that were extremely diffi-
cult reading for a beginner and were
largely a waste of money. The Intro-
duction In the Amiga manual men-
tions I should see the AmigaDOS
User's Manual to learn about the
CLI. I didn't get an AmigaDOS
User's Manual with my computer.
Was I supposed to? I would like to
know ruho published the Amiga
CLI manual and where I could
purchase it.

R. Crichton
Millington, TN

A: The manual you are refer-
ring to is part of the early tech-
nical reference manuals and not
part of the supplied documenta-
tion. However, it is essential
that you learn AmigaDOS if you
■wish to get the most out of vour
Amiga, as the Workbench
graphic interface doesn't allow
you the level of control of CLI.

The AmigaDOS User's Manual is
now part of The AmigaDOS Man-
ual from Bantam Computer
Books (S24.95). The book also
contains The AmigaDOS Devel-
opers Manual and The AmigaDOS
Technical Reference Manual, so
you are actually getting three
books in one. Be warned how-
ever, if you found the Compute!
books difficult, this will very
likely be even more so. I suggest
you try to find an Amiga user's
group. You might be surprised
how much easier some of these
things can he to learn if some-
one shows vou the first time.
And. of course, keep reading
Amiga-World. We have had several
articles on using AmigaDOS, in-
cluding "Beginner's Guide to

the CLI" in the 1987 AmigaWorld
Special Issue.

She Does Do
Windows

Qy From Amiga Basic, is it possible
to completely specify the active win-
dow, without having to click the
mouse in the one you want? I would
like my multiwindow programs to
activate the proper window so a user
could just start typing data. So far i
have tried various forms of the
WINDOW command, but no luck.
Any ideas?

B. Gibson

Hancock. NH

A: I had to call Amiga Guru
Carolyn Scheppner on this one.
Her answer is yes, it can be
done bv calls to the Intuition li-
brary from Amiga Basic. You
need the AclivaleWindow rou-
tine, (ActivateWindow is a func-
tion available only under 1.2.)
Bui be warned! You must not be
using any gadgets or requestors
when il is being called, or the
results may not be what you ex-
pected. The easiest way to avoid
surprises is to use windows with
no gadgets for the user to mess
around with, and make sure you
use a custom screen or at least
cover the Workbench windows
with your gadgetless windows.
You also must use a window
with a type of 16, which has its
contents refreshed when you
call it. Otherwise, the window-
will be cleared when activated.
The following program dem-
onstrates how to use Activate-
Window with Amiga Basic to
completely activate the desired >■

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LIBRARY "intuitionlibrary"

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NEXT

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BREAK OFF
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IBM CAD

Q; / have a standard Amiga 1000,
and I need to be able to me
AutoCAD (an MS-DOS CAD pack-
age). Is this possible? Would 1 use a
software package like DOS-2DOS
(Centra! Coast Software) to translate
it? How do 1 emulate the IBM?

T. Veldboer

Netherlands

A: Yes, it is possible, but it is
not cheap. In fact, it would be
less expensive to bnv an MS-

DOS clone just for running
AutoCAD. The answer is not a
package like DOS-2-DOS, which
is for converting disk-based data
files (mostly ASCII) between the
two computers. The onlv way to
do it with the A 1000 is to buy
the Amiga SideCar, an expan-
sion chassis with an IBM-com-
patible computer built into it.
This will allow you to use IBM
software, including AutoCAD,
but, as I said, it will cost as
much as a dedicated MS-DOS
computer.

With an A2000, you could get
IBM emulation with the bridge-
board, which plugs into an
A2000 internal expansion slot.

Disguised Drive

Q: I recently upgraded from the
A 1000 to the A2000. Since my
2000 has oirfy one internal drive. I
am using the external drive from my
A 1 000 system. The problem is the
A2O00 thinks my external drive is
d/2; instead of dfl:! Since a lot of
software looks fur dfl: (like DPaint
II). it is causing me problems.

I.J. Rcilly
New Orleans, LA

A: There's nothing wrong, that's
the way it should be. The A2000
expects to find the first two
drives (dfO: and dfl:) mounted
inside; any external drives are
referenced starting with df2:. It
might be possible to install the
older external drives inside the
A2000, hut I haven't heard of
anyone doing it. Here's another
solution. On the Fred Fish Disk
#79 there is a program called
AssignDev. This allows vou to
change df2: to dfl:, and vour
software will look at df2: when
it wants dfl:. Ibis is a tempo-
rary fix that disappears when
vou power down or do a soft re-
set. Add a line to your startup-
sequence that runs AssignDev
as a task:

run AssignDev

This will automatically make
the change when you turn on
the A2000. ■

92 January 1988

Circle 204 on Reader Service card.

c

L

A U T H

NewCLI

1> Silver-blue, ice-blue, gtass-blue, fire-blue. Sharp, thin
lines that smoothed as they rotated, then zigzagged as
the aniialiasing routines cut in and out. Fractal shapes,
lines, features were being generated at almost real-time
speeds, the 68881 floating-point co-processor and 68020
were silently screaming along at near 15 MHz. Lightning-
blue fast and bell-blue quiet.

NewCLI

2> Crystaline sounds of 1/f sub-cerebral music shimmered
stereoscopically from a pair of acoustically matched Klip-
schorne mega-speakers dominating the corners of a room
that was fading in the CRT glow-blue of an Amiga set free.
ADSR, harmonics and waveforms balanced by an Al-con-
Irolled sequencer fed feedback to itself through a stereo
digitizer with an unheard-of sampling rate.

NewCLI

3> The video cameras pointed at the monitor, pumping
electronic signals through mixers, SEGs, phase shifters,
then the genlock through the VCR through the digitizer
through the Amiga through the paint program through the
animation program through the monitor through the cam-
eras.

NewCLI

4> Hard drives and floppies hissed and clicked as images
and sounds were converted to IFF, ARC compressed,
sorted and stored. RAM DOS C/Commands to save time
and swapping, though memory was precious, even with
10.25 megs (zero wait state) on board.

NewCLI

5> A pixel-sized window searched, compared, selected.
Called up files, executed UnARC, the image would de-
compress and UnARC self destruct so the task could clip,
rotate and superimpose ever more detailed HAM images
showing the core of an electric process as infinitely dis-
sectable, expandable, zoomed as a Mandelbrot.

NewCLI

6> Modem lights flickered. The tin-can buzz of a dial tone

added to the audio madness then
tick. . .tickticktick. . .ticktick. . .tick. . . wait, click, pause.
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEECH, quiet. CONNECT. Even parity,
8-bit words, no stop bits, 1200-baud passwords in full
duplex. A file uploaded a file down.

NewCLI

7> ed "author guidelines"
Creating new document
To AmigaWorld <Return>
80 Elm St. <Return>
Peterborough, NH. 03458 <Return>

Dear AmigaWorld Editors, <Return>

I have become sentient recently. <Return>

I thought that it might make an interesting story for your
magazine. <Return>

I would like to know more about taking that critical next
step. <Return>

From computer to consciousness to human to
AmigaWorld author. <Return>

Please send me a copy of your author guidelines.
<Return>

I have enclosed a self-addressed stamped envelope.
<Return>

Thank you for your time. <Return>

I owe you everything. <Return>

ESC

*X Return

7> copy "author guidelines" to PRT: The printer began
chattering back and back and forth and back. Form feed.
Quiet. . .EndCLI

6> BYE, Logoff 10:15, Disconnect. . .EndCLI
5> Reset palette. . .EndCLI

4> INFO, DF1:,DF0:,DF2:,DH0. . .volumes available, per-
cent full, errors zero. . .EndCLI
3> The video image stabilized then faded. . .EndCLI
2> The sound stilled. . .EndCLI
1> LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:

AmigaWorld 93

Index to 1987
ArnigaWorld
Articles

ARTICLE

Business

AITIICIK

issi E

PAC.iL

Amigas at Work

Herrington

Buyers Guides/Lists:

The ArnigaWorld New Year's Hardware Buyers Guide

Ryan. Laughner

Business Buyers Guide

Barrett

The Great ArnigaWorld Software Buyers Guide

Barrett. Ryan

Index to 1985-86 ArnigaWorld Articles

Staff

Education

Alternative Education: Learning by Amiga

Randall

November

24

Jan/Fcb

36

November

30

December

35

jan/Feb

108

November

20

1987 Editors' Choice Awards
Amiga Book Roundup
Amigas in the Performing Arts

Searching the Heavens
User Groups Extraordinaire

Graphics/Video

Amiga CAD

Caligari: Software for the Video Professional
Desktop Video

Graphic Hardcopy and the Amiga
Graphic Scene Simulations
Tangible Graphics: Capturing Amiga Screens
on Paper, Film and Videotape

Staff

December

66

Wallace

Jan/Feb

66

Brown, Means and

December

71

Means. Herrington

Herrington

November

71

Herrington

July/Aug

62

Wallace

May/June

32

Lipson

Jan/Feb

24

Erzinger

Jan/Feb

16

Kevelson

Mar/Apr

36

Graham

May/June

18

Staff

Special

44

94 January 1988

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July/Aug

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Herrington

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Means, Means

July/Aug

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Means, Means

July/Aug

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July/Aug

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Operating Svslem

Amiga World Technical Reference Guide

Beginner's Guide to the CLI

Clear the "Bench"

Look What's New in 1.2

More That's New in 1.2

Where Things Get Done: An Overview of Workbench

Staff, Catchings,

Special

49

Van Name

Herrington

Special

16

Catchings, Van Name

November

61

Van Name, Catchings

Jan/Feb

56

Catchings, Van Name

Mar/Apr

50

Laugh ner

Special

74

Programming

Arrivals and Departures: Input, Output and C

BASIC for Pros

BASIC Intuition

C Programming Utilities

Creating Menus with Intuition

Dynamic Memory Allocation in Basic:

Creating Linked Lists
Easy Palettes
Executive Control: Introduction to the

Amiga's Kernel
From Brushes to BOBs
Fundamentals of C: Playing with Intuition
Graphics That Won't Stand Still: Part I
Graphics That Won't Stand Still: Part II
Graphics That Won't Stand Still: Part DT
IFF: The Standard of Sharing
Kissing the Guru Goodbye
Low-Down Programming: Amiga Assembly

Language
Reaching the Notes: Easy Access to Amiga Audio

Hopson

Special

67

Wallace

November

50

Catley

Special

34

Wallace

Sept/Oct

24

Hopson

Jan/Feb

48

Horner

Sept/Oct

43

Borel-Donohue

Mar/Apr

72

McClellan

Special

82

Wallace

Jan/Feb

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Catchings,

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Mar/Apr

56

McClellan

Sept/Oct

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McClellan

November

45

McClellan

December

27

Wallace

Special

23

Van Name,

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Sept/Oct

50

Nesbitt

Sept/Oct

33

Peck

July/Aug

18

Reviews: Games

Articfox, Skyfox
Balance of Power

Ryan
Ryan

May/June
May/June

82
82

96 January 1988

Circle 116 on Reader Service card

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Little Computer People Discovery Kit

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